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…
Posts tagged as “TransCanada”
TransCanada has proposed yet another modification to its Keystone XL route through Nebraska. Remember that TransCanada told us last year that re-routing Keystone XL was "impossible." As experts on the white man's forked tongue, Native Americans are offering some of…
ÜI heard some corporate propaganda from TransCanada on WNAX yesterday, an ad touting that Keystone XL would be "the safest pipeline in America." Hmmm... that's like advertising that you have the cleanest hookers in Las Vegas, or maybe the best…
Brookings County has $879,010 more to spend on roads, bridges, schools, and clean water this year, thanks to wind turbines. And that money comes largely from the nameplate tax, which specifically targets wind farms: The term nameplate refers to an…
Here's one more sign we may not need to tear up good prairie and surrender land rights to a foreign corporation with the Keystone XL pipeline: TransCanada is thinking about converting an existing natural gas pipeline to carry tar sands…
David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce, visits the Yankton Elks to agitate in favor of Governor Daugaard's corporate welfare policies. He tries to defend tax refunds to big companies with this comment on the revenues we…
A "pig in a poke" is a lovely idiom for "an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first." That's not quite an accurate description of the Keystone 1 pipeline. But TransCanada needs to get a bigger…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem continues to demonstrate that she is not paying attention to anything other than the talking points her handlers hand her. In another unannounced drop-in, Rep. Noem showed up at an economic roundtable in Yankton to spout propaganda…