The Star Tribune recently ran a piece announcing that Xcel Energy CEO Ben Fowke was the third-highest paid CEO in Minnesota in 2018 with a total pay of $26.2 million…
There is a pervasive fiction that solar is somehow lower cost than other sources of electricity and that this form of energy is competing on a level playing field with…
Cold water on summer amusements.
Will the utilities let Trump’s ACE rule help Minnesota’s miners and manufacturers?
There’s something you need to know about the doom and gloom surrounding the environment: most of it has no basis in reality. In fact, it seems like people who pretend…
The Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum is conservative in the same way that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is both democratic, and a republic. That's why it takes money from leftist…
There is big money behind promoting wind and solar power. After all, the only reasons people build wind turbines and solar panels are because of government subsidies, state-level renewable energy…
Yesterday, Twin Metals Minnesota announced that they were going to be storing their mine waste using a dry stack storage method, which is often hailed by environmentalists as the best…
The future of mining in Minnesota looks even brighter today as Twin Metals Minnesota announced they will protect Minnesota’s water resources at their planned copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota by…
Twin Metals Minnesota (TMM) announced today they will take extraordinary measures to protect Minnesota’s water resources at their planned copper-nickel mine in Northern Minnesota by using a method called dry…
It looks like the Community Solar Gardens aren’t very popular with the locals in Le Sueur County. Earlier in July, the Planning and Zone commission voted to enact a moratorium,…
The Sierra Club recently published an article that will surely make waves. The crux of the argument is that recycling doesn’t always make sense, and often times it is better…
In 2013, Steve Hellman, president of the battery storage company, Eos Energy, made a startling prediction about the cost of the company’s then-new zinc-air battery system. The following is from…
We are often told that capitalism is destroying the planet, and that the only way we can repent from causing environmental degradation is to switch from a capitalist system to…
We are often told that capitalism is destroying the planet, and that the only way we can repent from causing environmental degradation is to switch from a capitalist system to…
This is a great testament to the importance of reading past a headline. Upon first glance at this article from The Associated Press, “Indiana regulators reject Vectren plan for gas…
Brooklyn Park made headlines earlier this week after announcing the completion of their 6,000 solar panel project. The City claims they will now operate on 100 percent “clean energy,” even…
We are often told that capitalism is destroying the planet, and that the only way we can repent from causing environmental degradation is to switch from a capitalist system to…
It was supposed to be a done deal. The resolution to make Plymouth Minnesota’s newest “GreenStep City” was slipped into the city council’s consent agenda, clearing the way for expected…
Tomorrow, Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan and State Senator Dave Senjem, along with several other members of a Minnesota delegation including Jessica Hellman, Steve Kelley, and members of the Minnesota Public…
Oh gee, it looks like we need oil products in Minnesota, after all. Governor Walz should stop pandering to anti-pipeline activists and do what is right for the people of…
Several member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Pitesti, Romania in late June to discuss the future of green energy and ways to achieve CO2 emission…
Yesterday I made my first ever trip to the White House to hear President Trump talk about the great progress the United States has made on making sure we have…