South Dakota’s next big pipeline won’t carry oil; it’ll carry wastewater from Agropur’s Lake Norden cheese plant to the Big Sioux River. According to documents…
Tag: environment
Lake Mitchell, the 90-year-old reservoir north of Mitchell, is so full of algae that the city is considering draining the lake to remove the nutrient-laden…
Donald Trump hates lying leakers, but he hasn’t said anything about TransCanada’s underreporting of how much oil it spilled from the Keystone pipeline in Marshall…
Last week Seth Tupper reported that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources want to allow Canadian…
Ah, the Deadwood Standard Project! I haven’t heard about that Spearfish Canyon mining project for some time. Deadwood Standard is in the news for agreeing…
Good policy does occasionally make it through the South Dakota Legislature. House Agriculture and Natural Resources took its turn this morning at House Bill 1119, an…
In more evidence that Drew Dennert and I occasionally tune in to the same wavelength, I open a question by saying, “Cow poop,” and our…
Shannon Marvel notices one good bill among the 529 now piled into the Legislative hopper. House Bill 1223 would place a moratorium on the construction…
The open case file for TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline oil spill now includes a January 11 e-mail update from Brian Walsh of the Department of Environment…
Uh oh! Missed one, G. Mark! Factory feedlot consultant and Speaker of the House G. Mark Mickelson will want to take a look at Senate…