Black Hills, get ready to get nuked. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday issued a license to Powertech to operate a uranium recovery facility in Fall River and Custer counties in western South Dakota. Powertech, or Azarga, or whoever this Canadian-Chinese…
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Opponents of uranium mining in the Black Hills just lost one cause for hope. Previously Powertech appeared so impoverished that it might run out of cash before winning its permits to use and abuse Black Hills water in pursuit of…
Powertech, the technically Canadian but mostly Chinese-controlled company that wants to mine for uranium in the Southern Black Hills, appears to be playing financial tricks on investors. After two years of telling investors that its Colorado Centennial project is worth…
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…
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…