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triple-damages agreement for any environmental breaches, Pressler said.
• "They'd be much more careful," he said.
• Pressler said Keystone XL will do little to ease the strain that North Dakota Bakken oil production has put on the rail system that also moves agriculture commodities in and out of the state. The majority of the oil moving through the pipeline will originate in Canada, and most of it will be placed on cargo ships and sent to China and Japan, he said.
• "South Dakota gets nothing out of this, and the United States of America gets very little out of it," Pressler said. "What South Dakota really needs is the Bakken oil to be moved by pipeline."
• Former state lawmaker Gordon Howie, who also is running as an independent, said Keystone XL is a good project that needs to move forward. Howie said Congress needs to strip away unnecessary regulations so the country can explore energy sources that won't need long-term government subsidies to be profitable.
• "America is rich in resources and we have a government that wants to limit the development of those resources and keep America dependent on foreign energy," he said.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press
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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. MILITANTS LAY SIEGE TO IRAQ'S LARGEST OIL REFINERY
• Fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant began their attack on the Beiji facility, some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, threatening the country's domestic energy supplies.
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• 2. 'KEY LEADER' CAPTURED IN BENGHAZI EMBASSY ATTACK
• The Obama administration says Ahmed Abu Khattala, allegedly a terror chieftan in Libya, will be tried in a federal court in the U.S.
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• 3. DEATH ROW PRISONERS EXECUTED IN TWO STATES
• An inmate in Georgia and another one in Missouri received lethal injections in the nation's first capital punishment cases since a botched execution in April.
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