Rep. Kristi Noem, Senator John Thune, and other Republicans argue that we aren't producing enough oil. They say boosting our oil stocks requires continuing handouts to oil corporations and erasing environmental safeguards. But we already have more oil than we…
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Senator Tim Johnson sees an easy way to shave another $4 billion a year off the federal budget: stop subsidizing the richest oil companies: "High-priced oil threatens both our energy and economic security. We have a homegrown solution — ethanol,"…
As crews haul away hundreds of tons of tar-sands-contaminated soil and water from TransCanada's tenth leaky pumping station, I have pointed out that TransCanada assured our state government that such leaks would happen only once every twelve years. Ten leaks…
Pete Carrels of the South Dakota branch of the Sierra Club took a trip north of the border Monday to look at the TransCanada Keystone oil spill at the Ludden pumping station in Sargent County, North Dakota. Carrels files this…
(Hat tip to a Facebook friend and legislator who notices the same misplaced concern from our local media!) This is your brain on capitalism: The Ludden pump station on the Keystone pipeline near Cogswell, North Dakota, blows a fitting and…
A constituent writes to South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem to express concern about rising gasoline prices. Here's an excerpt from her response in a May 6 letter, in which she appears to suggest that oil and gas are renewable fuels:…
Update 11:48 CDT: The original version of this post cited Reuters and Wall Street Journal articles describing the spill as 500 barrels. Tar Sands Pipelines says 400 barrels; the initial National Response Center incident report says 100 barrels. A subsequent…
TransCanada's Keystone tar sands oil pipeline has already leaked four times on South Dakota soil in its first year of operation. What will life be like along the Keystone pipeline and its proposed Keystone XL companion line across West River…