⛏️ THE DAILY MINE Monday Edition · March 9, 2026 🔥 TOP STORIES ZOMBIE PIPELINE: Keystone XL revival gains momentum as Iran war reshapes energy politics... Reuters · Mar 6 South Bow launches open season. Iran + friendly White House + Canada policy shift = new window for the pipeline Biden killed. MAN CAMPS FOR AI: ICE detention builders pivot to data center company towns... Gizmodo · Mar 9 $700B data center boom creating pop-up housing camps for workers. Taylor Sheridan couldn't write this. WAR RESHAPES ENERGY: Iran conflict forces global rethink on where power comes from... TIME · Mar 9 Qatar halts LNG exports. Saudi refinery offline. Energy security beats climate goals when bombs are falling. AMERICA'S SHIELD: Natural gas bounty cushions US from global energy shock... WSJ · Mar 9 Global LNG prices surge. US climbs just 11%. Record domestic production is the difference. ARIZONA KILLS IT: State regulators repeal renewable energy standard entirely... RTO Insider · Mar 9 "Stand on their own two feet." First state to fully repeal. Others will be watching. ⚡ POWER & GRID RECORD BILL: New England just had its most expensive winter in market history... RTO Insider · Mar 9 Coldest temps in 20 years + gas dependency + pipeline constraints = sticker shock. $3.6 BILLION PLAN: MISO and SPP draft joint 500-kV transmission portfolio... RTO Insider · Mar 9 Two RTOs that rarely agree are building together. Transfer capacity between regions is the prize. FUKUSHIMA WHO? Japan goes all-in on nuclear comeback 15 years after meltdown... Reuters · Mar 9 Kashiwazaki-Kariwa restarted last month. Public opinion flipped. Iran war accelerates the shift. SOLAR'S HIT LIST: Industry PAC spends $650K to torpedo Chip Roy's AG race... E&E News · Mar 6 Roy killed their tax credits. They forced him into a runoff. Ads on Rumble and Truth Social calling him "not MAGA enough." TEXAS LAPS NEW YORK: More wind and solar in 2 years than NY built in 20... Times Union · Mar 9 Lighter regs, fewer local objections, market-driven. NY Democrats pointing to Texas to save their Climate Act. 🏗️ DATA CENTERS & INFRASTRUCTURE BRING IT BACK: Energy Secretary pushes restart of Indian Point nuclear plant... RTO Insider · Mar 9 NYC faces reliability crisis by 2027. The retired nuke could solve it — if the politics allow. IN YOUR BACKYARD: Festus, MO residents threaten legal action over data center deal... Fox 2 St. Louis · Mar 9 Small-town Missouri meets Big Tech. The opposition playbook starts local. BRING YOUR OWN POWER: PA governor fast-tracks data center permits — with strings... Spotlight PA · Mar 9 Shapiro's GRID standards: expedited permits if you fund your own generation. Smartest framework in the country. FOUR MILES DOWN: Oxy drills toward Colorado's geothermal future with oil field tech... CPR News · Mar 3 Same rigs, same workers, different energy source. If this works, it's a transition blueprint. Know someone who should be reading this? Forward this email. ⛏️ thedailymine.co