Expect more whining at the Powertech/Azarga offices: the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has stayed the license the NRC issued Powertech to mine uranium in the southern Black Hills. In an order issued today, the three-judge panel ruled in favor…
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The Hot Springs Star is burning bright with debate over the Powertech/Azarga uranium mining proposal. Local project manager Mark Hollenbeck tells his neighbors that in situ uranium mining is "inherently safe" and is "Nature's perfect solution to global air pollution…
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…
Rep. Troy Heinert (D-26A/Mission) brings us House Bill 1193, a sensible effort to protect South Dakotans from the dangers of in situ leach uranium mining. Hoping to reverse the Legislature's history of handing out favors to potential polluters, Rep. Heinert…
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…
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…