Enbridge, Koch, and Tar Sands Recovery: Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory? Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-01-30 19:55:41 In May of 2008, construction on the Minnesota Pipeline Company's (MPL) MinnCan pipeline will start. In 2009, the first oil from the Athabascan Tar Sands may begin running through the line, connecting the Enbridge Energy Partner's (EEP - $50.70) pipeline and oil-tank farm at Clearbrook, Minnesota to refineries in Rosemount.
Paper Profits on the Death of a Dream Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-02-13 16:35:57 As early as 1975, experts were promising us that the personal-computer, or PC revolution, would create a paperless society.
2012, Hopi Legends and Ecological Meltdown Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-05-20 15:19:54 I normally wouldn’t write in this vein, being more inclined to scientific research than mysticism, but I have Native American roots, and the appearance of the Holmes comet – which has recently expanded to fill an area greater than our sun – brings to mind Hopi prophecy of the End Times.
3M and Minnesota: The End of the Affair Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-01-14 23:33:19 Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, or 3M (MMM - $78.50), is a Minnesota institution on the order of Milwaukee and beer. Founded in 1902 by a lawyer, a butcher and a locomotive engineer, the company set out to make sandpaper and, 23 years later, came up with a packaging revolution known as masking tape. Along the way, it also spawned an indigenous economy that employed thousands and represented a cultural paradigm of corporate-sponsored creativity which produced such nonpareils as Scotch tape and Post-it® Notes.
