Land Use and Coal Development in North Dakota
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2014-11-13, 1974
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North Dakota State University
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The article focuses on land usage and coal development in North Dakota. Future coal energy development in southwestern North Dakota should be based on and guided by the concept of balanced development. Balanced development seeks to realize the most desirable combination of economic activities deemed to be in the long term local, regional, state and national interest. It must consider socioeconomic and environmental factors that affect man's total well being. It must recognize the natural environment as an integrated, sensitive system of land, water and air resources. It must stress the need to ensure that the health and stability of this resource system is maintained. It must regard all land as an irreplaceable resource
and seek to ensure that its use does not impair its value for future generations.