The big October blizzard gave Black Hills opponents of the Powertech uranium mining proposal an extra three weeks to prepare their arguments for their hearing before the South Dakota Water Management Board. Now Powertech itself has helped them gain more…
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South Dakota's doctors have told us that their research shows the prospect of uranium mining in the southern Black Hills is something to worry about. But on Dakota Midday Monday, a representative of Powertech Uranium Corp., the company that desperately…
Ken Steinken writes that Powertech's in-situ uranium mining plan is based on two fundamentally flawed assumptions: geological changelessness and human infallibility. Powertech says the millions of gallons of water it will contaminate to find uranium in the southern Black Hills…
Great enviro-news for people who like to drink water and not glow in the Black Hills! The South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment has indefinitely delayed further hearings on Powertech's in-situ uranium mining application! The South Dakota Board of…
It's hard to tell whether South Dakota is dealing with Powertech Uranium Corporation or the Riddler. Joe O'Sullivan reports that two weeks of public hearings on the Canadian-Chinese corporations plan to squirt uranium out from under the Black Hills and…
Pastor Steve Hickey is making waves with his proposal to celebrate South Dakota's quasquicentennial by freeing Leonard Peltier. Professor David Newquist says doing justice requires going bigger, ending our defilement of the Black Hills, and giving that sacred land back…
Hey, Mark Hollenbeck! Are you getting paid in yuan yet? Powertech is so short of cash that it's sacrificing its own people and closing its headquarters for loans. The company that wants to drill the Black Hills for uranium announced…
Democratic candidate for U.S. House Corinna Robinson wants to campaign on her anti-terrorism credentials. In her first public appearance, Robinson stretched those credentials too far, trying to turn South Dakota Democrats' minimum-wage initiative into a way to fight terrorism. If…