A South Dakota Moderate

The possibility of a new oil refinery in Union County has only just been announced and already people are coming out with doom and gloom statements over the project previously know as the Gorilla.
The latest is an op-ed piece in today’s Argus that contains a really well thought out and convincing number of bulleted arguments. [...]

When the “Gorilla Project” was finally outed as an oil refinery, you could pretty much bet the farm (pun intented) that it wouldn’t be long before the “not in my backyard” calls would follow. Living quite a few miles from the proposed site, I am currently leaning in favor of the project but since it [...]

Connecting “A” to “B” to “C”, a line from the classic sci-fi show the “X-files” when Agent Doggett was talking to Agent Reyes about a case they were working on and connecting the dots formed by the evidence presented. Senator John Thune is fielding questions himself about some dot connecting in regards to a $5000 [...]

Props need to go out to Todd Epp who correctly surmised with one of his posts what the “Gorilla Project” was, as it was announced that Hyperion Resources Inc. of Dallas was looking at the Elk Point area as a possible site for the first new oil refinery built in the US in over [...]

It seems that the Keystone Oil Pipeline project isn’t going hush hush like they had hoped.
A company proposing a crude-oil pipeline through eastern South Dakota pledged Tuesday to make public by week’s end all but legally protected information about its project.
South Dakota’s Public Utilities Commission agreed to give Trans- Canada, a Calgary utility company trying [...]

South Dakota is known for many things, our wonderful outdoor space, friendly people, and our agriculture. It seems that we are becoming known for something else, secrecy. The Governor’s super secret hunting party with out of state business leaders, the Harrisburg School Board’s firing of High School principal Keith Huber, the top secret “Gorilla Project” [...]