Last gasp for controversial Minnesota wind farm?

By   /  April 23, 2013  /  Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Featured, Minnesota, News, Private property rights  /  3 Comments

On or Off? Opponents say this $1.3 million wind power switching station may never go on line.

By Tom Steward | Minnesota Watchdog
GOODHUE COUNTY – A letter from the owner of a proposed wind farm to regulators shows his frustration in the permitting process and a willingness to sell off assets of his investment.
“New Era has no confidence that due process for this project will ever end, nor that an ABPP (Avian and [...]

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Keystone XL hearing gets raucous

By   /  April 18, 2013  /  Energy, Environmental, Issues, Nebraska, News  /  86 Comments

CROWDED: Opponents easily outnumbered supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline at a Thursday hearing in Grand Island, Neb.

 
By Deena Winter | Nebraska Watchdog
GRAND ISLAND – Hundreds of people flew across the country and traveled icy roads during a spring storm to attend a raucous public hearing in Nebraska on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that would bisect America.
Some got their message across in slam poetry, other used songs and prayer.
Pipeline opponents [...]

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NM senators in favor of potential natural gas deal with Japan

By   /  April 15, 2013  /  Energy, Environmental, Featured, New Mexico, News  /  No Comments

PIPE DREAM? Getting natural gas from New Mexico's San Juan Basin to Japan would require sending it through pipelines to terminals that would liquefy the gas to be shipped overseas by tankers. Handout photo from Pembina Corp.

At least three members of New Mexico’s Capitol Hill delegation are in favor of potential natural gas expansion to Japan —including Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, who have received support from environmental organizations that oppose increased production.

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What goes on at the secret govt energy lab?

By   /  April 4, 2013  /  Colorado, Energy, Environmental, Featured, National, News  /  1 Comment

HIGH ENERGY: NREL campus in Golden, Colo.

GOLDEN, Colo. — Behind an intimidating security perimeter, inside a futuristic, white concrete campus here that looks some top secret military organization, the world’s scientists gather to reduce mankind’s carbon footprint and ensure a bright, green future for all.

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No ‘Friends’ found in last episode of WI mining dramedy

By   /  March 7, 2013  /  Environment, Environmental, Featured, Governor, Legislature, mining, Mining Wisconsin, Regulations, Regulatory Reform, State Government, Wisconsin  /  2 Comments

A TIGHT GROUP: Wisconsin's mining bill saga comes to an end with, as expected, passage by majority Republicans.

Part 4 of 4 in the series Mining in Wisconsin

By Ryan Ekvall and M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – Two things were all but certain going into Thursday’s extended Assembly debate on the controversial mining bill: There would be enough grand-standing to choke a Trump, and, arguably, it would all be for naught.
Assembly Republicans had [...]

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