It would be difficult to overstate the likely impact of the jury's decision in the defamation case brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline against environmental icon Greenpeace…
The Guthrie Theater tries hard to ruin a great story.
I was looking forward to the Guthrie Theater’s last performance of the season, a theatrical adaption of the novel Shane. I read and studied Jack Schaefer’s classic 1949 western as…
Last week, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued key permits for the Line 3 oil pipeline. Enbridge, the company who operates Line 3,…
Happy New Year, everyone! You may or may not be recuperating from last night’s events, but here is a short post on the upcoming, good, bad, and ugly happenings for…
The national media has already written the first chapter of a potentially protracted standoff in northern Minnesota over the recently approved Enbridge 3 pipeline. The Wall Street Journal warns that…
Construction on the Enbridge 3 replacement oil pipeline should start this year, once state regulators get out of the way and give final approval. The vital project will generate hundreds of well-paying…
Hard to believe that’s it’s already been about a year since the Dakota Access Pipeline protests petered out next door in North Dakota. Instead of coddling activists who trashed the…
No more nice guy. Days after allowing 20 or so “water protectors” to stop work without consequences at the Enbridge 3 pipeline replacement project outside Superior, Wisconsin, Douglas County…
Environmental protests have become an accepted cost of doing business for companies involved in natural resource projects–until now. Energy Transfer Partners has just filed suit against Greenpeace and two other protest…
There was a surprisingly amount of energy truth contained in a November Washington Post editorial about the Dakota pipeline protests: How did the out-of-state activists protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline arrive…
It remains to be seen if and when Bakken shale oil will flow through the Dakota Access Pipeline that’s still under construction, as well as protest, in North Dakota. The…
Lt. Gov. Tina Smith used Facebook to make Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek the bad guy for sending a contingent of 30 deputies to reinforce North Dakota authorities in the showdown…