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Posts tagged as “environment”

DENR Posts Lake Level Database Online

Why yes, Secretary Pirner, that is pretty cool! The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has plugged its recent historical database of South Dakota lake levels into an online interactive map. You can now click on your favorite lake and…

HB 1195: Lance Russell Hates Conservation Easements

Wow: what's with the assault on private property rights from the South Dakota Legislature? First Rep. Lora Hubbel (R-11/Sioux Falls) tries to restrict your right to sell your property to the federal government with HB 1166. Now Rep. Lance Russell…

TransCanada Follies: Sell to China, Co-Opt Enviromental Panel

A couple weeks ago, Plains Justice brought to my attention a persuasive argument that TransCanada's real customers for the tar sands oil it wants to ship across the prairie in the Keystone XL pipeline are not the Americans from whom…

Grand Slam: All SD Keystone Pump Stations Leak

TransCanada's Keystone pipeline system is now up to five reported leaks in our neighborhood. According to a National Response Center incident report tracked down by Ms. La Seur at Plains Justice, Pump Station #20 up in the Andover-Ferney metroplex here…

Nebraskans Protest Keystone XL; Clinton May Be Listening

More evidence that Nebraskans are serious about their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline: over a hundred citizens rallied at the Nebraska State Capitol on the Legislature's opening day last week to call for limits on eminent domain and tougher…

No Coal Plants in America’s Stocking

Basin Electric's proposed NextGen plant near Selby wasn't the only coal-fired electrical generating station to get the red light in 2010. For the second year in a row, no one in the United States started building a new coal-fired power…

TransCanada CEO: Keystone XL Not Connected to Tar Sands Development

GPTSP points out a fun little rhetorical knot from TransCanada CEO Russ Girling, who argues that the debate over his company's proposed Keystone XL pipeline should have no connection with the debate over the tar sands it will carry: "I…

Vista Bid Falls Apart: AgStar Taking Both Veblen Dairies

It looks as if AgStar Financial Services will wrest both of Veblen, South Dakota's bankrupt mega-dairies away from serial polluter Richard Millner and his fellow investors. Vista Family Dairies, a front group formed by Richard Millner and other Veblen West…