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North Dakota Oil Boom Not Keeping up with University Repairs

The Bakken oil boom is making North Dakota rich! Too bad its universities are falling apart: Students returning this week will attend classes in buildings without adequate ventilation or fire detection systems and in historic landmarks with buckling foundations. A…

Oil Trains, ETP Pipeline Proposal Pose Unnecessary Risk for East River

Todd Epp reported Friday that Mobridge, Aberdeen, Harrisburg*, and Canton* are all in "oil train blast zones," near rail lines carrying explosive crude oil shipments. According to the ForestEthics map, so are Lemmon, Milbank, much of Sioux Falls, and North…

Keystone XL Does Long-Term Damage to U.S. Economy

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds another show vote tomorrow to boost the Keystone XL pipeline. Big Oil and friends are thus cranking out a little extra Keystone XL baloney. Prairie Business offers up the American Petroleum Institute's…

EB-5 Bargain Brings Chinese to Save West River from Keystone XL?

CNN reports what we South Dakotans know from experience: Chinese investors love the EB-5 visa investment program. According to yesterday's report, Chinese immigrants took almost 6,900 EB-5 visas in 2013, 81% of the total issued. Compare that with the 16…

Obama’s Delay on Keystone XL Cowardly but Clever?

Republicans don't like President Barack Obama's long delay in making a decision about the Keystone XL pipeline. I don't like it, either: I wish he'd just tell TransCanada to shove their pipeline up their own backcountry. But could the President's…