Year-round residents of Alaska will each get a $1,884 royalty check this year from a state oil wealth trust fund, but residents of North Dakota aren't so lucky.
The Bismarck Tribune reports:
Reporter Erik Burgess explains the part of the state constitution that prohibits such royalty payments, and shows that it's not exactly a well-thought-out thing:
Changing the rules would require a constitutional amendment. Meanwhile, daily oil production in North Dakota is now comfortably above 1 million barrels a day, and natural gas production in July was at 1.3 billion cubic feet per day, an all-time high.
