Jonathan Ellis has a treasure trove of documents from the U.S. Customs and Immigrations Service exposing the corruption in South Dakota's EB-5 visa investment program. Last week Ellis found the connection between EB-5 and Keystone XL. Yesterday, Ellis revealed similar…
Posts tagged as “wind power”
South Dakota's wind power blows me away this morning. A Future Structure article reports that Kansas is swiftly expanding its wind power generation capacity, with Kansas utilities getting 19.4% of their electricity from wind power. Future Structure says that percentage…
Trailer manufacturer SmithCo is moving its corporate headquarters from Le Mars, Iowa, about 40 miles west to Elk Point, South Dakota. With the help of a low-interest loan from Governor Dennis Daugaard, SmithCo will also open a sales outpost in…
One of the arguments people make against wind farms (yes, there are some avid opponents of South Dakota's greates and cleanest potential power source) is that they decrease property values. But that argument doesn't hold up to real data. Looking…
Bill Clinton, Indians, wind turbines—that's got to give South Dakota Republicans heartburn. The Clinton Global Initiative has announced that six South Dakota tribes are working together to build America's biggest wind farm: Six South Dakota Sioux Tribes – the Cheyenne…
When Governor Dennis Daugaard, Senator Russell Olson, and other Republican devotees of government interference in the free market talk their economic development proposals, they say we have to compete with other states with incentives. As my friend and sustainability advocate…
In her second closed-door, invitation-only meeting in two days, Congresswoman Kristi Noem talked up the Production Tax Credit, a pro-wind-power policy that Mitt Romney opposes*. Rep. Noem makes this powerful claim in her press release on the topic: Since its…
My browser tabs are out of control: time to dump some energy notes! 1. I mentioned yesterday that kids are driving less, in part because they get their connection fix online. I notice this downtown in Madison: nobody drags Main…