ND Legislature Set Path To The Green Agenda With Non-Binding Resolutions

For 20 years, the North Dakota legislature passed non-binding resolutions paving the way to North Dakota's adoption of the Green Agenda and subsidization of CO2 related projects.

In the world of legislation, non-binding resolutions and laws often times get passed as feel-good measures with little to no consequence, or at least no consequence intended by those who vote for the resolutions and bills. But occasionally, they are a great way to sneak through an agenda stealthily without anyone realizing it. Sometimes, even those of us who keep an eye on what is happening in the legislature don’t really see the forest being planted one tree at a time.

The following is a semi-journalistic attempt to comprehensively document for the historical record a multi-decade long progression toward the adopting the Green Agenda and state-taxpayers support of CO2 related projects. There are likely other pieces of legislation that could and should be on this list.

Hindsight being 20/20, many people didn’t realize what was really happening at the time, but these decisions led North Dakota to be a leader in creating the Republican Green Agenda.

While it won’t change where we are n…