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…
Posts tagged as “Bakken”
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…
As Governor Daugaard begins dog-and-pony-showing the results of his Workforce Summits, newly Hillsified Seth Tupper takes a look at the tight labor supply in Rapid City. Predictably, we get some smoke about how far a dollar stretches in South Dakota.…
Because Rebecca Leas is an outspoken critic of Powertech/Azarga's plan to pollute the Black Hills and use up our water to help the Chinese get rich off our uranium, Pat Powers portrays her as an out-of-touch feminist. Don't ask for…
As I come out of the recent deep-freeze to return from a longer-than-anticipated holiday hiatus (for no other reason than I didn't stay particularly connected to my laptop while I was eating Christmas dinner and ringing in 2014), I read…
When I first read about Daugaard Chief of Staff Dusty Johnson's comments contrasting the economic growth of the two Dakotas last week, I was puzzled as to why Johnson would think it necessary to tear down our northern neighbors' Bakken…
In the thick of the Bakken oil boom, Williams County finds some profiteers not paying their bills. Companies operating temporary housing—the infamous man camps—around Williston owe Williams County over three million dollars in fees related to their conditional use permits.…
RCJ's John McLaughlin reports that the Black Hills economy, as measured by sales tax revenues, has been chugging along nicely over the last couple years. I did move out here two years ago. You're welcome. Figures on taxable sales for…