You think TransCanada/Keystone pipeline opponents are noisy? Try living next to one of the Keystone pumping stations, like the one near Fort Ransom, North Dakota, that's bothering its neighbors: The Keystone pump station that contains four, 5,000-horsepower electric turbines has…
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I promise, Bob: I was not wearing my camos or mask while writing this post. Tar sands oil and the pipelines that carry them bring unavoidable risks to South Dakota. But TransCanada exacerbates those risks with what a fired engineer…
ÜI heard some corporate propaganda from TransCanada on WNAX yesterday, an ad touting that Keystone XL would be "the safest pipeline in America." Hmmm... that's like advertising that you have the cleanest hookers in Las Vegas, or maybe the best…
A "pig in a poke" is a lovely idiom for "an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first." That's not quite an accurate description of the Keystone 1 pipeline. But TransCanada needs to get a bigger…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem continues to demonstrate that she is not paying attention to anything other than the talking points her handlers hand her. In another unannounced drop-in, Rep. Noem showed up at an economic roundtable in Yankton to spout propaganda…
...unless your name is Big Oil. Rep. Kristi Noem and her House colleagues approved H.R. 1433, the Private Property Rights Protection Act, on a voice vote last week. The bill includes this encouraging language on the sense of Congress that…
My spies snag a copy of TransCanada Keystone Pipeline LP's 2010 financial report filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. TransCanada's Keystone shell spent $2.8 billion on pipeline construction, line pipe, pumping equipment, and other items in 2010 and wrote…
I am deeply grateful to Cody Winchester of that Sioux Falls paper for doing some much needed digging on the story of TransCanada Keystone's failure to deliver the tax revenues it promised on its first tar sands oil pipeline. In…