Governor Dennis Daugaard and other Republicans tell us we should bend over and take the Keystone XL pipeline because it will bring lots of jobs and economic stimulus. The Department of State puts Keystone XL's job creation between 5000 and…
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We can't count on Governor Dennis Daugaard to support efforts to block the Keystone XL pipeline. In a letter to a concerned constituent, Governor Daugaard says he believes TransCanada's handling of the numerous spills at its pumping stations along the…
Black Hills Power wants to build about 150 miles of new power line from Wyoming to South Dakota. The Teckla-Osage-Rapid City Transmission 230 kV Project would bring (probably) coal-fired power from the Teckla and Osage Substations in northeastern Wyoming to…
On his work blog at Heartland Consumer Power District, McDowell copies and pastes an entire Robert Samuelson essay (without providing a link to the original) on how tapping the Canadian oil sands will promote America's energy security. McDowell tacks on…
Heather Libby and Emma Pullman turn my list of TransCanada's first-year Keystone spills into a lovely poster: This graphic does not depict the 21 leaks Keystone I had on Canadian soil. Libby and Pullman do question how the U.S. State…
I've been reading the Department of State's Final Environmental Impact Statement on TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Numerous commentators are focusing their criticism on the FEIS's environmental analysis. I want to take a look at the section on socioeconomic impacts.…
The State Department has issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Canadian oil giant TransCanada wants to build across the western half of South Dakota to ship up to 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil…
One of the major concerns about TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline is the possibility that it would contaminate the Ogallala aquifer as it crosses Nebraska. (And remember, Keystone XL is eight times more likely to damage the…