While our Congressional delegation fights the EPA’s efforts to regulate water pollution, while Rep. G. Mark Mickelson pins his gubernatorial hopes on deregulating feedlots, while a Canadian hog producer…
Tag: environment
Natali Ormiston and her backers in Quartz Operations thought they could find billion-year-old oil in the Precambrian bedrock below Wasta. We probably won’t find out if…
Opponents and proponents of stricter feedlot regulations in Bon Homme County are forming a volunteer group to see if they can help the county commission strike the right balance between…
My morning paper reminds me that fish in a couple of area lakes continue to carry a bit too much mercury. The Department of Health now posts mercury…
The Bon Homme County Commission stalled an effort Tuesday to tighten regulation of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). With the pressure on from neighbors and farmers…
I made my journalistic trek to the Keystone pipeline spill site between Freeman and Menno on Monday. If prayer is your thing, you might want to make your…
Earth Day is Friday. What are you going to do about it? How about clean up downtown Aberdeen and go to the Green Aberdeen Earth Day…
I picked the rainiest day of the year in Hutchinson County to visit Mile Marker 410 of the TransCanada Keystone tar sands oil pipeline. What…
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…
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…