DOE seeks another site after North Dakota county rejects borehole project

摘要

DOE and a contractor team led by Battelle Memorial Institute will explorernalternative locations for a borehole drilling research project after the fivememberrnPierce County Commission in North Dakota March 1 rejected arnDOE borehole drilling project planned for the town of Rugby.rn“The overwhelming response to individual commissioners by localrnresidents has been that of opposition to the Project,” commissionersrnsaid in a March 1 letter to John Harju, vice president of strategicrnpartnerships at the University of North Dakota Energy and EnvironmentalrnResearch Center, one of the DOE contractors on the project.