Meade County Commissioners have what seems like a good transportation idea: they'd like to build a bypass east of Sturgis to connect state Highways 34 and 79 straight south to Interstate 90: This east bypass would run from the Elkview…
Posts tagged as “Keystone XL”
Which foreign imperialist will get squashed by low oil prices first, Vladimir Putin or TransCanada and its no-long cost-effective Keystone XL pipeline? ..."the political debate is not paralleled by the realities" in the market, said Sandy Fielden, director of energy…
This will be an exciting day for the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission. (I can picture Commissioner Chris Nelson springing out of bed every morning and saying exactly that.) On Tuesday, December 9, amidst seven major agenda items, the PUC…
Saudi Arabia gave a Black Friday gift to the world oil market. The Saudis have persuaded their OPEC partners to sustain OPEC's current oil production rates (30 million barrels per day) rather than cutting production to pull oil prices out…
John Thune is running for President. How else can we explain our soon-to-be-senior Senator's seemingly sensible statement on climate change on Fox News Sunday? Asked about the overwhelming agreement among experts on the cause and trajectory of global warming, Thune…
Rep. Kristi Noem and the U.S. House approve Keystone XL? Them's fightin' words, says the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Literally: “The House has now signed our death warrants and the death warrants of our children and grandchildren. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe…
Senator-Elect Mike Rounds based his campaign on a series of laughable lies, including the claim that building the Keystone XL pipeline will drive trains to every farmer's doorstep to haul away their grain. Would you believe the railroads themselves don't…