Madville Times

All conservatives got with Kristi Noem was looks. Observers outside South Dakota are already seeing that, far from a true Tea Party crusader...

Dr. Blanchard has been hammering on the inefficiency and immorality of our federally subsidized ethanol industry. Now the EPA adds some bl...

Depending on your position on biofuels, the following may constitute a slim voting issue in South Dakota's Congressional race. Biofuels ...

Part 5 of the Madville Times' South Dakota State Fair Congressional Debate analysis Question 4 at Sunday's debate: what will you do...

Part 4 of the Madville Times' South Dakota State Fair Congressional Debate analysis Question #3 at Sunday's debate put Tea Party se...

A couple of energy notes of interest to South Dakotans: Solar Cheaper than Nuclear: A study by two researchers at Duke (Duke! They've g...

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) wants to end the ethanol subsidy . The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee says $7.6...

Two dozen tabs open on my browser—time to clear the cache and lament the ongoing disaster of our irresponsible energy practices. Scott and M...

Once upon a time, the Big Stone II power plant was going to need 600 megawatts of electrical transmission capacity. Then Otter Tail and oth...

Badlands Blue highlights more hypocrisy from million-dollar mansioneer R. Blake Curd and millionaire-subsidy rancher Kristi Noem . Curd a...

I don't do April Fools (I do recommend tickling as an alternative). But if you think government subsidies for ethanol are a waste of mon...

The market and I remain open to a debate on the merits of ethanol as a good alternative fuel. Ethanol creates jobs and market opportunities ...

I've written previously that, among other things, increasing corn ethanol production may drain water supplies and be harm water quality...

Expect CE commercial competitiveness by 2011, says CEO Broin. April was right : Jeff Broin's Poet Ethanol has achieved a cost breakthrou...

Given some conservatives' vociferous efforts to keep President Obama from fomenting Marxist revolution in the classroom, I'm surpris...

The Sioux Falls John Morrell plant celebrated 100 years of chopping up pigs in its current location last May. Now, with the pork market de...

T. Boone Pickens may be delaying his big wind farm , but the grid issues hindering his efforts tell me we should push more, not less, to div...

Wind turbines and ethanol plants do make noise. But can that industrial noise kill goats? A farmer on the Penghu Archipelago off the west...

Say hello to our new corporate neighbor, Valero Energy Corporation . They just bought out bankrupt ethanol maker VeraSun. "Investing in...

Poet Ethanol , the City of Sioux Falls, and even the Environmental Protection Agency were down in the dump yesterday... for a ribbon-cutting...