It only makes sense that resurrecting the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline would make Donald Trump’s Top Ten To-Do List. Keystone XL is shovel-ready—as in shoveling-hogwash-ready,…
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The Dakota Access Pipeline’s crossing of the Missouri River near the northeast corner of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is on hold (thanks, President Obama!),…
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain silent on the Dakota Access pipeline that the Obama Administration paused on Friday. But the two leading Presidential nominees…
Henry Red Cloud, Democratic candidate for Public Utilities Commission, has been gathering supplies to support the “Water Protectors” protest camp at the Cannonball–Missouri confluence in…
If South Dakota’s regulators and courts won’t save us from Big Oil, at least their pipelines-unter-alles attitude is helping keep Minnesota clean for our camping trips. Canadian…
Protestors—some participants prefer the term protectors—have gathered on 50 acres north of Cannonball, North Dakota, near the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers, to fight the…
I’m not the only one who’s suspicious of Big Oil. In response to concerns that TransCanada’s substandard steel may have leaked oil in Nebraska as…
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…
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.…