Sunday before last, I wrote about the discussion in Spearfish over the proper use and care of Lookout Mountain. Among the points that came out in the discussion before the Spearfish City Council between advocates and opponents of a plan…
Posts tagged as “conservation”
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture last month named the winners of the Resource Conservation Speech Contest that it co-sponsors with U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the state's conservation districts: Shanae Doerr of Aberdeen won first with a speech celebrating…
I worked with a Dakota Rural Action committee to advocate a net-metering policy this year in Pierre. The Public Utilities Commission joined the industry in killing that proposal. In a fit of reactionary wagon-fixing, Public Utilities Commissioner Chris Nelson is…
The Keystone XL pipeline will drain South Dakota's electricity supply. What can we do to compensate for all the electricity those oil pumping stations will use to prevent our utilities from having to raise our rates to build more coal-fired…
99-Year Pipeline Easements Still O.K. More legislative recycling: the Ag Land Assessment task force has put forward House Bill 1007, which seeks to limit conservation easements to thirty years. This bill follows up on a recommendation made last fall by…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune explains how the failure of Rep. Kristi Noem to pass a real Farm Bill is just one more Republican cave-in to the rich and powerful: A truer and more alarming way to view the one-year extension…
So did you hear the one about the guys who wanted to build a pipeline to ship Missouri River water to Phoenix and Las Vegas? No, seriously, that's one of the plans considered in a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation report…
According to Bob Mercer's reports, the Legislature's Ag Land Assessment Tax Force spent its time Monday hearing concerns about trees and conservation and then taking a swipe at those concerns. The committee heard that South Dakota's potential-income tax on farmers…