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| Affiliation | Democratic-NPL |
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| Name | Brad Crabtree |
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Bismarck, North Dakota , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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Unknown |
| Died |
Still Living
(2024 years) |
| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Paul
Feb 04, 2013 09:43pm |
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| Info | Brad Crabtree brings twenty years of experience and a proven track record in energy and environmental policy to his candidacy for the Public Service Commission. A native North Dakotan, Crabtree grew up in Bismarck and ranches with his family south of Kulm.
Crabtree has served as policy director of the Great Plains Institute since 2002, where he has helped forge common ground on energy policy and technology among industry, agriculture, state governments, and conservation and environmental organizations throughout the Midwest:
* Coordinated Midwestern Governors Association advisory groups, which resulted in adoption of the most far-reaching regional energy policy and technology goals and recommendations in North America;
* Co-directed the public-private Powering the Plains Project that prepared a 50-year consensus blueprint on energy policy for the Upper Midwest in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy development and advanced coal technologies with capture and geologic storage of carbon dioxide;
* Directed the Coal Gasification Work Group that developed the region’s first-ever comprehensive recommendations for accelerating deployment of carbon capture and storage from coal;
* Coordinated a partnership of the region’s regulatory commissioners, utility industry and environmental organizations to design the Midwest Renewable Energy Tracking System that provides third party accounting for renewable electricity credits and supports development of a regional renewable electricity market; and
* Organized a series of high-level regional delegations to Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands and United Kingdom that have provided North Dakota and Midwestern industry, agricultural and environmental leaders the opportunity to learn from key energy policy and technology success stories overseas and apply those lessons here.
Crabtree also serves as a board member of the North Dakota Alliance for Renewable Energy. Brad worked with NDARE members and others to help secure passage of North Dakota’s first renewable electricity objective and biomass energy incentive policy, as well as legislation to establish a state renewable energy council through the Industrial Commission.
As a private landowner and local township official in Dickey County, Brad has been a prominent and long-standing advocate of sensible wind energy siting policies to safeguard the private property right of landowners to their wind resource, while encouraging orderly development of our North Dakota’s vast wind energy potential.
Before joining the Great Plains Institute, Crabtree was project director at the Consensus Council in Bismarck where he coordinated the International Flood Mitigation Initiative for the Red River Basin following the 1997 flood and the Grasslands Stewardship Initiative to help ranchers, conservationists, and the U.S. Forest Service find common ground over grasslands management.
Prior to returning to North Dakota in 1997, Brad worked for six years in various policy and consulting roles in Washington, DC. He has also lived, done research, and worked in Germany, Southeast Asia, and Brazil and made numerous professional trips to Europe and China on energy policy and technology matters. Crabtree holds a B.S. degree in international relations and history from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and a M.A. degree in history from Johns Hopkins University.
Brad, his wife Renee and daughter Suria, aged 10, manage their 520-acre Echo Lake Ranch in Dickey County as a small family operation. They raise cattle and sheep and market all-natural, grass-fed lamb and beef to restaurants in North Dakota and to individual customers throughout the Midwest and beyond.
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