Hey, you know that guy Rep. Kristi Noem is bringing here, Rep. John Mica from Florida, to talk flooding in Pierre on Friday? He tried to kill some South Dakota airports this summer. Remember that Federal Aviation Administration shutdown that…
Posts tagged as “Keystone XL”
When you have to lie to support your case, you don't deserve to win. Big industry backers of the Keystone XL pipeline appear to be doing just that. Brant Olson of The Understory discovered a slew of Twitter accounts that…
Once again, too many tabs clutter my browser top. Time to clear the queue! The South Dakota Department of Tourism published a new report on gas prices last week. From 22,830 self-selecting respondents, we learn that folks take 3.6 vacations…
If a Congressman sponsors a bill on a topic, we rightfully expect the Congressman to know more than we do about the topic. Congressman Lee Terry from Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored H.R. 1938, legislation that would require the Executive Branch to…
(State Department not much better!) On Tuesday, the U.S. House voted strongly in favor of H.R. 1938, a bill ignoring the separation of powers and ordering the State Department to resolve the permit process for the TransCanada Keystone XL oil…
Pipelines kill or injure people more frequently on American soil (once a week) than Islamoterrorists. They definitely do more damage than a certain sensationalized and acquitted defendant in Florida (whose name I refuse to blog on charges of irrelevance to…
Surprise...not! TransCanada has lowballed its estimate of how often the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will leak by a factor of eight. So says University of Nebraska–Lincoln engineering professor John Stansbury. His full report and an executive summary are archived at…
Folks who tell you we need to let TransCanada build the Keystone XL pipeline to increase our supply of safe North American oil are not paying attention to the true intent of the pipeline. Keystone XL will decrease the supply…