energy policy

Minnesota Power to Expand Bison Wind Farm

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Land Report Editors

Minnesota Power has notified the North Dakota Public Service Commission of its intent to begin the second phase of the Bison Wind Farm project in central North Dakota. The additional capacity will increase total power generation to 185 MW. The…

Obama to Nominate Salazar for Interior

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Land Report Editors

Landowners in the West will have one of their own heading up the Interior Department in the new Obama Administration. According to published reports, Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) will be named the 50th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior…

Federal Reserve Bullish on Great Plains

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Farmland in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and parts of New Mexico jumped 20 percent in the third quarter of 2008, according to a report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City this week. Here are some of the…

T. Boone Pickens: The Land Report Interview

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Join Land Report Editor Eric O’Keefe as he goes behind the scenes with the legendary Texas oil man on his Roberts County ranch and in his quest to wean America off foreign oil.

Tagged with: Bobby Stillwell, Boone Pickens, Chris Busbee, energy policy, Eric O'Keefe, Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, Madeleine Pickens, Mesa Vista Ranch, Pickens Plan, Roberts County, solar energy, Ted Turner, Texas Panhandle, The First Billion, Wind Belt, wind energy
Posted in 2008 Fall, Energy, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Minerals, News Desk, Southwest, Water

The Rise and Fall of Ethanol

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

One of the more telling anecdotes about ethanol comes from Boone Pickens. It’s always an eye-opener to listen to this master raconteur discuss energy and politics. Last month I heard him tell an audience at Georgetown University about a sit-down…

Tagged with: Bob Dole, Boone Pickens, energy policy, ethanol, public policy, Wall Street Journal
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk

The Clean Energy Scam

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Amazing new diets, intriguing self-help books, a daily dose of St. John’s Wort – we are a country obsessed with quick fixes. Now, as Time points out in this cover story titled The Clean Energy Myth, we can add ethanol…