How’d all that oil get on the ground? TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline ruptured and spewed 9,700 barrels of oil* onto the South Dakota prairie just southeast…
Tag: environment
I like the in-depth reporting South Dakota News Watch is offering, but in their latest report, Bart Pfankuch appears to overstate what Canadian gold miners Agnico…
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources closes public comment tomorrow on the wastewater disposal pipeline that Agropur wants to build from its expanding Lake…
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…
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…