Much of the gas burned off in North Dakota is from wells connected to overwhelmed gathering systems.It isn’t every day that an energy company tries to give away cash, but one of the biggest oil producers in North Dakota is trying to do just that. Continental Resources Ltd. says it wants to pay state taxes and make royalty payments on natural gas it improperly burned off at dozens of wells in recent years. The company is asking state regulators to approve its plans, including the value it is assigning to the gas that was burned in the controversial practice known as flaring. “We believe we’re the first operator out there asking to be allowed to pay royalties and taxes,” said Brooks Richardson, Continental’s director of risk enterprise management. Continental and other North Dakota drillers say they were forced to burn off gas they would have rather […]