Nepotism, inattention to elected duties, and general incompetence aren’t nuisances to the 217,008 South Dakotans who reëlected Governor Kristi Noem yesterday. But 1,993 voters in…
Tag: uranium
An eager reader notices that yet another Canadian energy company is angling to exploit South Dakota’s natural resources. Vancouver-based Pegasus Resources has bought 147 lode mining…
Climate change-driven projections of increased investment in nuclear power and heavy investment from the new Canadian Sprott Physical Uranium Trust pushed uranium prices up in September. Element…
Dang—our most off-topic commenter is right: Powertech/Azarga still wants to slurp up our water to squirt uranium out of the Black Hills. After receiving Underground…
In its fire sale of America’s health and welfare, the Trump Administration last month approved the Powertech/Azarga in situ uranium mining plan in the Dewey–Burdock…
The first time I wrote about Azarga’s planned in situ uranium mine near Edgemont (and this is over ten years ago, in June 2009!), they…
On October 30, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board holds an evidentiary hearing in Crawford, Nebraska, to hear the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s argument…
Rep. Kristi Noem is trying to spin the Department of Energy’s cancellation of the Deep Borehole Field Test as evidence that her Führer is hearing the anti-nuclear concerns of South Dakotans. I…
Sierra Club SD political chair Mark Winegar has been paying close attention to the EPA’s Black Hills hearings on the Azarga/Powertech uranium mining plan. Winegar…
Whoo-hoo—the newest Dakota Free Press podcast heads to the farm to interview school board member Brian Sharp, who is running for reëlection. Sharp is the only active…