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Posts tagged as “Black Hills”

Second State Regulatory Board Defers Powertech Decision to Feds

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…

Powertech Claims Based on Bad Geological Assumptions and Human Hubris

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…

SD Board Defers Powertech Mining Permit, Pending Federal Approval

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…

Powertech Can’t Answer Questions about Pollutants, Water Use, Jobs…

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…

Newquist: Land Sacred as Scripture to Lakota; Give Back the Black Hills

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…

Anti-Powertech Rally Planned Outside October 28 Water Permit Hearing in Rapid

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…