Dakota Resource Council
Our Issues
Our Current Issues
Oil and Gas
Oil and gas development can and must be done right, without polluting our land, air, and water or leaving landowners and taxpayers with the costs of cleanup. Dakota Resource Council is organizing to reduce flaring and venting of natural gas, ensuring safe and responsible disposal of oilfield waste, and working to make oil trains and oil pipelines safer.
AG and Food
Dakota Resource Council was founded by farmers and ranchers in the 1970s. Protecting family farms and ranches is the core of DRC’s mission. Since the 1970s DRC has worked on many important agricultural issues including working to save family farms during the farm crisis of the 1980s, working to ensure ranchers are fairly compensated for their livestock, working to ensure genetically modified wheat did not expand into North Dakota, and working to defend North Dakota’s anti-corporate farming law.
Data Centers
A data center, in the simplest way to put it, is like a huge warehouse but instead of boxes, it’s full of humming computer servers stacked in endless rows. Some have thousands, others hundreds of thousands of machines, all blinking and breathing heat. Before approving projects, local boards and regulators should ask hard questions. Who pays for the new power plants and lines? What happens if the company leaves? Are co-op members protected from higher rates? How many permanent jobs are guaranteed? And maybe most important, does the community actually benefit, or just host the risk? Communities deserve transparency, accountability, and genuine economic benefit.
CO2 Pipeline
North Dakota is poised to become a major dumping ground for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) experimental technology. CCS is a process of capturing some carbon from industrial sources and transporting it underground for storage. C02 is stored underground in what is known as pore space, basically, pockets of air that exist between rocks or soil, the idea being that it will stay in the pore space.
Clean Energy
DRC supports a cleaner, safer place to live and work through innovation in our approach to energy supplies. We come from all walks of life and are committed to bringing the benefits of clean energy to our region. We invite you to join us in this mission to build a better and clean energy future.