Not only does Summit Carbon Solutions want to take your land, but it also wants to take your water. The Iowa company, which wants to…
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Gregory County could have produced some super-clean electricity by embracing a proposed pumped-storage project that would have used wind power to pump Missouri River Water…
We’d better hope those rare-earth elements up in North Dakota didn’t also get sprinkled into the Black Hills; otherwise, we might have a hard time…
Department of Agriculture Heeds Texas Oil Driller’s Complaint, Avoids Stricter Water Pollution Rules
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) thought about requiring better monitoring of water pollution from oil wells. Texas oil weller Citation Oil & Gas…
Four East River Republicans want more government and more taxes, in the form of new taxes imposed by a new water project district around Lakes…
Sometimes the Legislature won’t even spend other people’s money. Senate Bill 156, Senator Helene Duhamel’s (R-32/Rapid City) proposal to spend $100 million in ARPA Biden…
The House of Representatives gets a chance today to spend another chunk of that federal assistance South Dakota got to survive the pandemic. On today’s…
While gallivanting around Washington, D.C., last week, Kristi Noem endorsed Calvin Coolidge’s century-old assertion that South Dakota has “meager resources”. But we’re not short on…
The Fort Randall Dam flooded over 34 square miles of Yankton Sioux reservation land and forced 136 Indian families off their home land. Now a…
U.S. Highway 81 just south of Arlington is open again. After spending $8.3 million on what we’d hoped would be a $4-million project (but hey,…