The new four-officer Northern Plains Squad of the South Dakota Highway Patrol put in its first day of work today. The HP has charged this new squad with the unenviable duty of patrolling the entire northwest quarter of the state,…
Posts tagged as “Bakken”
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…
Around 150 people are expected to attend the Black Hills Bakken Conference here in Spearfish today and tomorrow. I'd be interested in attending as well to hear all the tarry-eyed oil-boom boosters tickle our fantasies of petro-wealth and asking if…
My weekend reading juxtaposed the following articles: The Rapid City Journal ran a batch of articles discussing the impact of the Bakken oil boom on western South Dakota. Barbara Soderlin finds GCC Dacotah Cement in Rapid City trucking cement daily…
The Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce hosted "It's Coming Down the Pipe," a town hall meeting on the booming oil industry in western North Dakota. The meeting was a bigger deal than I thought. Heading down National Street toward the…
I attended the big town hall meeting on the economic impacts of North Dakota oil development held in Belle Fourche last night. Stay tuned for a full write-up later. But one tidbit leapt to my attention at last night's presentation.…
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead publishes a list of surprising facts about the impacts of the Bakken oil boom on rural North Dakota: mile-long traffic jams, $2000-rent for one-bedroom apartments and other costs pricing long-time residents out of their towns, doubled…
TransCanada has signed contracts with U.S. oil suppliers to carry Bakken shale oil in the Keystone XL pipeline. Suppliers in North Dakota and Montana have signed contracts to send 65,000 barrels a day down to Oklahoma alongside TransCanada's tar sands…