Governor Dennis Daugaard met with tribal officials last week to discuss tribal concerns with Senate Bill 176, the anti-protest law (yes, law: the Legislature included an…
Tag: pipelines
Ever since TransCanada plowed its first tar sands oil pipeline across eastern South Dakota, one of my main critiques of pipelines has been private corporations’ ability to use eminent domain…
…like how the telescreens and Room 101 are for your own good, Winston Smith. Greg Belfrage and I capped our interview this morning with a…
Senate Taxation rejected Senator Troy Heinert’s admirable “Buy American Steel” plan Monday. Senator Heinert had proposed Senate Bill 158 to encourage pipeline companies to use American…
Recognizing that Donald Trump’s plan to build the Keystone XL pipeline entirely with American steel could run into some roadblocks (like inventory), South Dakota Democrats are lending Il…
An eager reader notes that tribes in North Dakota face conflict over Il Duce’s fossil-fuel impulses. In one corner, we have Standing Rock Sioux tribal…
Pastor Steve Hickey contends that the Dakota Access Pipeline is not worth trashing state-tribal relations in South Dakota. In an op-ed this week, the former Republican legislator…
Some Aberdeen neighbors gathered at the courthouse yesterday afternoon to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Among the many reasons we should oppose this pipeline—eminent domain for private profit,…
Today’s Brown County Democratic Forum featured speeches and lively Q&A with our District 3 House candidates Nikki Bootz and Brooks Briscoe. At both today’s event and her…