The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources is taking public comment on its proposed revision of the General Water Pollution Control Permit for Concentrated…
Tag: water
It should be another exciting day at the state Water Management Board meeting today in Pierre. At 1 p.m., the board again takes up the application from the fundamentalist (read “polygamist”)…
Bob Mercer links to this map from the Public Utilities Commission’s hearing on the Dakota Access Pipeline, showing how the Bakken oil shipper will hook into Energy Partners’ national…
Rep. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) thinks South Dakota needs more confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). He pushed legislation, HB 1201, that took effect yesterday making…
RockStep Capital, the new Houston-based corporate owner of the Lakewood (soon to be rechristened Aberdeen) Mall, is repaving the mall’s crumbling parking lot. Evidently they don’t…
Dakota Rural Action board member and friend of the blog Paul Seamans explains to readers of that Sioux Falls paper the damage Keystone XL could do to…
Hey, you know all that foam you see blowing up from the brownish cascade that gives Sioux Falls its name? It probably came from your intensively…
Ken Santema reports on the Keystone XL protest held in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s visit to Watertown last week. He finds that the protesters, largely American…
Pierre doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to pump much of anything West River. First the PUC delays the Keystone XL oil pipeline hearing;…
The Board of Regents said yes to hiring Dr. José-Marie Griffiths as the first female president of Dakota State University because they likely recognized that she…