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...The video quickly went viral: a Nebraska farmer, clad in a life jacket and blue jeans, skimming across his uncle’s flooded field on a wakeboard....
...In other words: the protests against the banks funding the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) were just the beginning....
...Agrium will buy 18 farm retail locations across the US corn belt in states including Nebraska and South Dakota, that churn out annual revenues of over $150m, writes FT’s Emiko Terazono....
...MidAmerican, which has headquarters in Iowa, serves electricity and gas customers in Illinois, South Dakota and Nebraska, and has a renewable energy portfolio with projects in California, Arizona, Illinois...
...“There is a fair amount of cynicism and concern about this transaction,” said Heidi Heitkamp, a Democratic senator from North Dakota....
...But environmental activists say it will endanger sensitive ecosystems particularly in Nebraska, and are calling on the president to block the project....
...The worst areas are Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas. Oklahoma is also suffering....
...Mr Romney takes Nebraska (5), Arkansas (6), Wyoming (3), Kansas (6), Louisiana (8), South Dakota (3), Texas (38) and North Dakota* (3). Updated tally to follow....
...What makes North Dakota, Nebraska and South Dakota different from the rest of the US?...
...The protests have centred on the proposed Keystone XL – a 2,673km pipeline extension that would start in Alberta and run south-east through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska....
...States involved in the lawsuit were Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Dakota, South...
...Mineral leases in shale oil territory that would have sold for $10 an acre in the Niobrara Shale – which runs under parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming – just two years ago are going for $5,900...
...Mr McCain won several big states, including New York, which carry greater weight in the nomination process, while Mr Romney’s victories were concentrated among relative minnows such as North Dakota and Alaska...
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