But dang it, just as I cheer our increasing use of wind power, NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy gets fined over $8 million for killing…
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South Dakota’s ag-industrial complex and its captured political operatives and apologists like to tell us that the stench of their livestock waste is the smell…
Governor Kristi Noem says that the record 85.9-million-dollar budget surplus South Dakota incurred in Fiscal Year 2021 happened “Because of our respect for freedom and…
The wind power building boom saved South Dakota’s bacon in 2020, pumping tens of millions of extra tax dollars into state coffers. But somehow that…
Kristi Noem fired up the hot air in her private Fox News studio to try diverting blame for the rolling blackouts hitting Texas and points north…
On the first day of the 2021 Legislative Session, Joint Appropriations received a budget overview from the Bureau of Finance and Management. In that presentation,…
Public Utilities Commissioner Gary Hanson said some nutbar stuff on election night. He returned to making mostly sensible policy statements last week when he joined…
Well, not quite. In 2019, Iowa got 41.9% of its energy from 5,590 wind turbines. Those numbers are down this week, since Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican…
The Public Utilities Commission yesterday finally approved the 155-megawatt Tatanka Ridge Wind Project in Deuel County. Avangrid, which is part of Spanish Iberdrola, says it…
A friend of the blog from Brookings County received a call purporting to be from Milbank yesterday evening. His phone flagged the number as likely…