In a Corrective Action Order issued April 9, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration reports that TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline leaked about 400 barrels of tar…
Tag: environment
Can TransCanada ever do math right? They underestimated the risk of spills on their Keystone tar sands oil pipeline; now they’ve had to multiply up their initial estimate of…
Whatever happened at the site of the Keystone 1 pipeline leak near Freeman, TransCanada doesn’t want anyone else looking at it: TransCanada didn’t have a representative…
The Senate advanced one bad bill for agriculture, the environment, and citizen participation last week; now the House has a chance to pass one good bill for agriculture, the environment,…
In another move to take away South Dakotans’ rights in favor of capitalists’ pigs, Senate State Affairs yesterday approved House Bill 1140, Rep. Mark Mickelson’s proposal to reduce citizens’…
House Bill 1140, the latest move in Rep. G. Mark Mickelson’s ongoing effort to make it easier to build giant concentrated animal feeding operations in South…
The Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society’s Winter Conference is in full swing at the Aberdeen Ramkota. The conference includes a number of vendors pitching their wares…
Before you head to Rapid City or Sioux Falls to hear Koch Brothers’ propagandist Stephanie Maier reinforce your failing sense of white privilege by telling…
Rural residents south of Mount Vernon continue to find their quality of life degraded by the stench of Jackrabbit Family Farms’ sow operation, which processes 150,000…