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…
Tag: environment
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…
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’…