TransCanada's Keystone tar sands oil pipeline has already leaked four times on South Dakota soil in its first year of operation. What will life be like along the Keystone pipeline and its proposed Keystone XL companion line across West River…
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Hey, Charlie! How about converting the organic farm to organic power? Now, as diesel prices skyrocket, some farmers who have rejected many of the past century's advances in agriculture have found a renewed logic in draft power. Partisans argue that…
Energy investment is a matter of cost-benefit analysis. On two major tar sands oil projects, TransCanada's Keystone pipeline system and Hyperion's proposed Union County refinery, we are told that the environmental harm is justified by the benefits of making more…
State Representative Lance Russell's censure for unprofessional and illegal activity as Fall River County state's attorney is troubling to those of us who believe in fair execution of justice. The inability of Rep. Russell's fellow legislators to find his misconduct…
Last year's BP oil rig explosion and spill are still having numerous health, environmental, and economic impacts. Among the lesser known neurological impacts: political amnesia. It appears that Big Oil can cause Intern Kristi Noem and her Republican colleagues on…
The Elks Theatre in Rapid City is hosting a free (yes, free!) Earth Day event on Wednesday, April 20. The South Dakota Izaak Walton League and the South Dakota Clean Water Alliance will put on the Black Hill Protect Our…
I look up from my computer and see gales of snow blowing across my soggy yard and over whitecaps on the lake. The U.S. State Department appears to be getting snowed. The department has issued a supplemental environmental impact statement,…
Sure, the New York Times has come out in opposition to TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, but what do those guys know? They don't live here. Let's ask some Great Plains neighbors what they think of piping some…