Governor Dennis Daugaard has appointed Freeman oilman Scott Stern to succeed J. Pat Costello as Commissioner of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The Governor’s office provides…
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When Scott Westerhuis’s murder/arson/suicide launched the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal to the front pages, I immediately noticed the suspect business manager’s small web of corporate entities.…
Craftsmanship matters. Eager reader Paul Seamans finds this photo on Facebook from the office and staging ground TransCanada has set up east of Norfolk, Nebraska, for its…
I drove through Redfield on my way home Saturday. West of town, I saw a field flagged. In town, the rail yard near the kink in US 212 was piled with…
Natali Ormiston and her backers in Quartz Operations thought they could find billion-year-old oil in the Precambrian bedrock below Wasta. We probably won’t find out if…
Pat Powers mumbled something this morning about needing the Dakota Access pipeline to free up rail cars for agriculture products. But the decreased railroad volumes…
Citizens gathered for another informational meeting on the Deep Borehole Field Test in Redfield last night. I’m searching for first-person accounts online, but prior online press indicates…
In a Corrective Action Order issued April 9, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration reports that TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline leaked about 400 barrels of tar…
Can TransCanada ever do math right? They underestimated the risk of spills on their Keystone tar sands oil pipeline; now they’ve had to multiply up their initial estimate of…