Stealth Tax Increase: Legislature Should Blunt Impact Of Induced Power Demand

The state promotes, incentivizes, and subsidizes the recruitment of industry that requires high amounts of electricity. The legislature should protect consumers from the costs increases.

North Dakota has a Catch 22 problem.

It has to figure out how to replace the demand for coal fired electricity before Minnesota’s law prohibiting electricity from coal fired power plants kicks in.

So, North Dakota state policy is to recruit, incentivize, and subsidize new industry to come in and use the power now. The problem is, average consumers are…