With two different legal battles going before the North Dakota Supreme Court, the fight over building the Davis Refinery in western North Dakota drags on. “I look back now and realize just how naive I was,” Bill Prentice, CEO of Meridian Energy, said of the process. Meridian is the company trying to build the refinery.…
Opponents of Meridian’s Davis Refinery Are Misleading the Public
An opposition group has formed aimed at blocking the construction of the Davis Refinery in western North Dakota. The refinery would be near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, though “near” is an imprecise term. To hear the activists against the refinery tell it, including a former head of the park, the refinery would be almost…
This Is What Exaggeration Looks Like
We all know that there’s a big, ugly, on-going debate over the environmental impacts of North Dakota’s oil boom. and we all know that some media types are more fair in their coverage of that issue than others. A particularly egregious example of the less-than-fair sort of coverage was published over the weekend by Associated…
Teddy Roosevelt's Descendent Says Slow Down North Dakota's Oil Boom
Winthrop Roosevelt, the great-great-grandson of former President Theodore Roosevelt, has partnered with Bismarck Tribune columnist/environmental activist Clay Jenkinson as well as the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress to produce a video trashing North Dakota’s oil boom (see below). To go along with it, Roosevelt has also published a column in The Daily Beast in…