Buffett may benefit from Keystone XL pipeline delay

Billionaire Buffett’s Bakken Boom

Editorial Investor’s Business Daily 11/16/2011

Energy Policy: Killing the Keystone XL pipeline may help one of the world’s richest men get richer. North Dakota’s booming oil fields will now grow more dependent on a railroad the president’s economic guru just bought.

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New Drilling Method Opens Vast U.S. Oil Fields

Associated Press via FoxNews.com 2/10/2011

A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude.

Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California. By 2015, oil […]

New Pipeline is Good News for the Energy Sector

John Verum Serum 11/5/2010

Yesterday, Plains All American Pipeline LP of Houston announced plans to build a one hundred mile pipeline to the Bakken oil field in North Dakota. The new pipeline is expected to deliver 50,000 barrels of oil per day, a figure which may expand to 75,000 bpd later. For comparison purposes, the […]

RedState.com: The Red Queen Does Not Have the Votes

by Dan Perrin RedState.com 3/19/2010

Speaker Pelosi does not have the YES votes she needs, but the Dems insist on voting on ObamaCare on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, uh, Sunday. Hoyer said this morning they still don’t have the votes. FireDogLake’s count is at 192 Yes votes, with the No votes rising to 208. Staff […]

American Indian Reservation Reaping Big Benefits From Oil Drilling

James MacPherson Associated Press CNSNews.com 2/24/2010

New Town, N.D. (AP) – An oil boom on American Indian land has brought jobs, millions of dollars and hope to long-impoverished tribal members who have struggled for more than a century on the million-acre Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.

In little more than a year, oil companies have put […]

Exodus for Dodd, Ritter, Dorgan: What it means

by Marc Ambinder The Atlantic January 6, 2010

Bad news comes in threes. Just hours after Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) announced his retirement, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter notified his campaign that he, too, would not seek re-election. Late tonight, aides to Chris Dodd sent word that the long-time senator from Connecticut would also be stepping […]

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