How can you tell Rep. Kristi Noem is lying? When she talks about the Keystone XL pipeline. South Dakota's lone Congresswoman found just enough time between basketball games and polishing her saddle to repeat her support for TransCanada's Keystone XL…
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In the Conservative-Only-When-We-Want-to-Be Department, Gordon Howie proves that even the arch-est conservative caves to crony-corporate the 1%'s objectives. He calls on Washington to protect tax subsidies for Big Oil and protection for corporations shipping operations overseas: Recently, a group of…
Just what is that stuff that TransCanada wants to pump across our stolen land in the Keystone XL pipeline? It's not crude oil, says one cranky ex-Marine who had gotten a Texas judge to halt construction of the southern leg…
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is making possible an increase in U.S. oil production that... is working in tandem with energy-efficiency policy and technology to lead us toward energy self-sufficiency; made us a net exporter of petro-products in 2011 (tell me…
Remarkable: the South Dakota Legislature's Oil and Gas interim committee has posted drafts of seventeen pieces of legislation they may consider to regulate the oil and gas industry in South Dakota. Committee member Rep. Spence Hawley (D-7/Brookings) says the committee…
The Hyperion refinery is kaput. In August, Hyperion started withholding annual payments and dropping land options in Union County, where it intended to build a tar sands oil refinery. Now on the eve of arguing for an air-quality permit before…
Even if Governor Daugaard stacks all of the state regulatory agencies with Big Oil backers, Union County will never see the Hyperion build its proposed oil refinery. As has been well documented here and elsewhere, it's not hippies who will…