South Dakota is "under-explored" for oil, says Sturgis consultant and former cop Adam Martin, the new exec of the South Dakota Oil and Gas Association. "Under-explored" appears frequently in press dealing with South Dakota and oil exploration. State officials are…
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South Dakota misses out on another chance to cash in on the North Dakota oil boom. The state has determined that sand in the Black Hills is not suitable for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process driving America's current oil…
Two reasons to hope the geologists are right and that fracking the Bakken won't expand from North Dakota to South Dakota: 1. The feds just designated Williams County, at the heart of the North Dakota oil patch as a "High…
As LK has warned us, if South Dakota gets into the fracking sand business, we may be complicit in sending California into the ocean... or maybe Oklahoma: Scientists have linked Oklahoma’s biggest recorded earthquake to the disposal of wastewater from…
In more West River mining news, environmental activists may find another target in the Black Hills: sand mining. Cambrian Resources, which Rapid City energy lawyer David Ganje just brought into existence last November, has acquired silica sand mining claims for…