In continuing celebration of juche, Governor Dennis Daugaard travels to White Lake today to dedicate the Crow Lake Wind Project. (Expect to hear the term self-reliance at least three times in the Governor's speech.) This new wind farm, which has…
Posts tagged as “wind power”
Man bites dog: Congresswoman Kristi Noem does something I like! She has introduced a bill to make it easier to build wind power on federal lands: The Utilizing America's Federal Lands for Wind Energy Act would cut up to two…
A few weeks ago, Shelli Gust helped me explain how the proposed update of Lake County's zoning ordinance actually increased land-use options. But 9.4% of the county electorate was more interested in poking fingers in various commissioners' eyes than in…
While Dakota War College is busy flogging the tired Michele Bachmann meme of light-bulb oppression and regurgitating central party agitprop, it misses a chance to beat greenies over the head with their own greeniness. Xcel Energy just announced that it…
KELO blips an AP report on the USDA-NASS 2009 On-Farm Energy Production Survey. This first-ever count of renewable energy use in agriculture finds a tiny percentage of South Dakota farms are installing wind turbines and solar panels and saving a…
Last year Basin Electric said it was "re-evaluating the timeline" for its NextGen coal-fired power plant near Selby. Looks like the re-evaluating is over: NextGen is nixed. From today's Federal Register: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGYWestern Area Power Administration Notice of Cancellation…