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…
Posts tagged as “North Dakota”
Ah, yes, South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem delivered the keynote address at the North Dakota Republican Convention in Bismarck last Saturday. How many wrong keys and sour notes did she hit? Let's go to the video: Well, right off the…
For over a year, I've maintained with a variety of evidence that building the Keystone XL pipeline will raise the price of oil and gasoline here in the middle of America. At the very least, empirical evidence says Keystone XL…
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…
Harding County neighbor Bret Clanton goes walkabout up north and finds this remarkable sight next to tiny Gascoyne, North Dakota: That's Keystone XL pipeline laid out along Highway 12. TransCanada has been stockpiling pipeline at Gascoyne and other sites up…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is promoting petro-exploitation in South Dakota with his Oil and Gas Initiative. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum swings wide and tells North Dakotans that their development of the Bakken oil fields means Iran might nuke 'em: Rick Santorum warned…
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…