The Mitchell Daily Republic almost gets the Keystone XL pipeline. In this morning's editorial, the paper acknowledges that burning Canadian tar sands oil makes a messier planet. They admit the jobs created by the pipeline number only 2,000 and will…
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Why would South Dakotans want to let TransCanada run another tar sands pipeline through their backyard, when even a federal pipeline safety official says he wouldn't buy or build a house along the pipeline route? The official, Bill Lowery, is…
Rep. Kristi Noem voted for more bad legislation yesterday. Joining a nearly unanimous Republican caucus against a just slightly less unanimous Democratic caucus, Rep. Noem voted for the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act. Two reasons Noem voted wrong:…
Two reasons to hope the geologists are right and that fracking the Bakken won't expand from North Dakota to South Dakota: 1. The feds just designated Williams County, at the heart of the North Dakota oil patch as a "High…
The Mercatus Center updates its politically agendafied Freedom Index to find that South Dakota has dropped from freest to second-freest state in the Union. Here's their video explaining our second-place ranking: We have great fiscal policy (i.e., low taxes), budget…
Consumer Watchdog posts a new report confirming pretty much everything I've told you about the Keystone XL pipeline: it will send North American tar sands oil overseas, raise our oil prices, and boost Big Oil profits at our expense. Long-time…
Well, heck: if I'm going to be on some South Dakota emergency management terrorist watch list, I might as well be at the top of that list! No one needs to send a bomb threat to make this point: booming…
I read that the United States is producing as much oil as it did in 1992. By 2018, we're on track to produce as much oil as we did at our previous peak in the early 1970s. We're also learning…