OIL
Sand mining debate fractures
By Don Davis Sand mined in southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin opens up cracks between rocks so oil and gas can be removed from the ground in places such as North Dakota. But mining the s...
Posted on 2/19/13 at 6:17 PM
10 Foods in This Dietitian’s Kitchen
Being a registered dietitian, I am often asked what I kind of food I keep on hand in my house. Well, here are my top ten must-haves! 10. Eggs That whole cholesterol scare with eggs is so 10 years a...
Posted on 8/1/12 at 1:10 PM
New Plateaus Geography Spotlight # 3 - São Tomé and Príncipe
*This article was co-written with the help of the talented and intelligent, Thomas Brandt. If you're ever interested in contributing ideas or material to New Plateaus, please express it. :) Gosh, wit...
Posted on 7/29/12 at 10:06 AM
The Good, the Bad and the Abysmally, Painfully Awful
Apparently, the movie Battleship is about as bad as you would have expected it to be. I have a hard time believing any movie could be as bad as Transformers was, but apparently this hits that low mark...
Posted on 5/23/12 at 1:26 PM
Forum Communications Co. launches news website aimed at the growing ‘Patch’ in western North Dakota
FARGO, N.D. - Forum Communications Co. today unveiled thepatchtoday.com, the multimedia companys newest information website in its collection of sites that serve the Upper Midwest and beyond. Thepa...
Posted on 3/12/12 at 2:00 PM
Oil well fire burns two men
ARNEGARD, N.D. — A cigarette lighter may have caused a fire at an oil well site Wednesday near here that seriously burned two men, a spokesman for the company that owned the well said.By Amy Dalrymple/ Forum Communications , August 23, 2012
Klobuchar takes tour of oil patch, says Minnesota also reaping benefits of boom
By Amy Dalyrmple, Forum Communications Co. , April 20, 2012
Fighting the spill
August 29, 2010
As others see it: Oil flow stoppage is just first step
By West Central Tribune , July 21, 2010
Brief: Deadline nears for oil portrait workshop
WINDOM — The Business, Arts & Recreation Center Education Connection program will offer a three-day Portraits in Oil Workshop from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. July 15-17 in room 105, BARC, 1012 Fifth Ave., Windom.June 23, 2010
Column: Obama’s empathy
WASHINGTON — It took almost a full hour of President Obama’s news conference for the professor president to come down from his lecture platform and show the human reaction to the Gulf leak accident that people had been looking for. oilBy David Broder, Columnist , June 01, 2010
Letter: Windfall tax suggested for oil companies
Looking back on the spike in gas prices does leave some questions. Experts on the oil industry would not misjudge the supply and demand that drastically wrong. Oil prices are a big influence on the economy, and we never in my lifetime had a bad economy in an election year. So I start to look at who would want this.By Roger L. Elgersma Sioux Falls, S.D. , January 13, 2009
Letter: To drill or not to drill?
In school we were taught there are no questions, except there are. One is, why should we drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or offshore if it takes so long to develop?By Mike Bogle, Windom , July 10, 2008
Letter: China oil drilling 'urban legend'
I read the recent letter submitted by Leroy Vetsch on China drilling for oil off the coast of Florida. I did some research and the information that I uncovered did not match Leroy’s information.By Joyce Kadlec, Pipestone , June 20, 2008
Letter: Walz missed mark on energy act vote
If China can drill for oil near the continental shelf of Florida, why can’t our country allow it?By Leroy Vetsch, Brewster , June 17, 2008
Letter: Plenty of fossil fuels still available
There are now more known oil reserves than ever, yet we are still being told we are running out of oil by “big oil,” which wants to keep prices high, and the “greens,” who want us to go back to the horse and buggy days.By Mike Bogle, Windom , May 15, 2008
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