You Almost Get the Idea That We’ve Never Built a Pipeline Across a River Before
As the protests aimed at stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline, as a means toward ending oil development generally, continue we...
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Funny How Nobody Wants Rent Control When Rents Are Falling
Two years ago, in the throes of a housing shortage driven by the Bakken oil boom, the Williston Herald called for...
The Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Which Isn’t Really About a Pipeline
Things are getting heated on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation as activists strut before the news media and bait law...
There Is Nothing Peaceful About Blocking Lawful Industry
Law enforcement had to be called to the confluence of the Missouri and Cannon Ball rivers today as workers on...
Bakken Oil Pipeline Apparently Attacked by Arsonists
As the Dakota Access Pipeline faces a lawsuit here in North Dakota orchestrated by an extreme anti-oil group, in Iowa...
As Lawmakers Ready for a Special Session There Are Signs That the Worst Is Over for North Dakota
Starting tomorrow North Dakota lawmakers will be in a special session for most of the week to address a hole...
Standing Rock Tribe Should Ditch Earthjustice if They Want Pipeline Lawsuit Taken Seriously
"The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers accusing the federal agency...
Governor Jack Dalrymple on Why He Didn’t Call a Special Session Sooner: “Because We Didn’t Have To”
Yesterday while sitting in for Jay Thomas on WDAY AM970 I interviewed Governor Jack Dalrymple about his announcement earlier in...
An Exaggeration Put to Rest
For years now, as the development of oil and gas resources in western North Dakota has advanced, one consistent talking...
North Dakota’s Lawmakers Need More Oversight on State Regulations
Last week the North Dakota Industrial Commission passed a raft of new rules for the state's oil and gas industry,...
