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Clean Energy & Clean Air

It is estimated that Coal pollution kills approximately 30,000 people per year. DRC is working constantly to ensure North Dakotans can breathe clean air by promoting clean wind energy and energy efficiency. To learn more click below.
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Oil and Gas

Picture the future of North Dakota. Is is amber waves of grain? Or is it a sacrifice zone for industry? Oil and gas development must be safe and responsible. Our state must protect the people and land of North Dakota first. That's why DRC is working on landowner rights, hydraulic fracturing, and protecting our land and communities.
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Protecting Local Farmers

North Dakota farmers, ranchers and rural communities need prosperity and sustainability to thrive. Dakota Resource Council has worked for years for fair and open livestock markets to restore competition. DRC also helped convince Monsanto not to bring out genetically modified wheat in 2004, which would have closed many foreign markets to North Dakota farmers and jeopardized consumer choice.
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Preserving Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Another piece of rural North Dakota is about to be changed forever by a proposed coal drying plant, a coal mine, and a coal power generating plant. This industrial coal project threatens the way of life for the farming community of South Heart, ND and is sited just 13 miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Updates + News

Letter: Ruling threatens reclamation law

April 27, 2012

Ruling threatens reclamation law: Gene Wirtz (Bismarck Tribune) North Dakota has the strongest law in the United States on restoration of mined farmland, but the state Supreme Court’s recent Coal Lake ruling threatens to gut the law.The court upheld the Public Service Commission’s decision that recreation was a “higher and better” use for 86 acres [...]


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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!

March 27, 2012

Once again we have a marvelous opportunity to raise some serious funds thanks to the donations of two generous individuals. New memberships and contributions will be matched on a dollar for dollar basis up to a total of $7,000, which means $14,000 for our critical work! DRC is the most successful and committed grassroots organizing [...]


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DRC Member Donny Nelson Stars on Planet Green Network's Reality Show: Boomtown

March 22, 2011

Boomtown is a reality show about the oil boom in Western North Dakota. The video below stars member Donny Nelson.


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