The State of South Dakota helped fund construction of Northern Beef Packers. That Aberdeen slaughterhouse is now bankrupt, leaving workers, investors, and taxpayers holding the bag. The state can avoid a similar mistake by denying the mining and water use…
Posts tagged as “Powertech”
The Oglala Sioux Tribe and other citizens concerned that Powertech will mess up the Black Hills with its proposed in situ uranium mining scored a tactical victory yesterday. The tribe and the "consolidated intervenors" (Susan Henderson, Dayton Hyde, and the…
Remember how South Dakota public safety officials unapologetically labelled opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and Powertech uranium mining projects terrorists out to kill your children? Kevin Woster jumps on the Bob Mercer bandwagon and says we had it coming:…
The deck unstacks, just a little! After initially scheduling the hearing for Powertech's uranium mining permit in Pierre, Board of Minerals and Environment hearing chair Rexford Hagg has relocated the hearing to the Best Western Ramkota in Rapid City. The…
Canadian mining company PowerTech held another dog-and-pony show on May 22 in Custer to promote its plan to squirt uranium out of the ground in Custer and Fall River counties. The Custer County Chronicle reported that the project "could mean…
Fellow green neighbor Phyllis Cole-Dai follows up on the fascist propaganda injected into a Black Hills emergency drill last week and gets the names of the people responsible for putting her, me, and other opponents of Keystone XL and Powertech…
Phillip Abernathy, Custer banker and president of the Custer Area Economic Development Corporation, says on the Custer Chamber of Commerce website that that his organization will host an informational meeting on Powertech's proposed uranium mining project in the southern Black…
Has your government ever labelled you a potential terrorist? My state government may have just done that to me. Last Tuesday, May 14, five Black Hills school districts—Rapid City, Sturgis, Deadwood, Custer, and Hot Springs—participated in a terrorism response drill.…