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Powertech water permit hearings – DELAYED
Due to the weather events of the past weekend, the Powertech water permit hearings have been delayed. The hearing will convene the second planned week, October 28-November 1. Here today there are only...
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Uranium, water, and the future of the Black Hills
Today marks the beginning of the water permit hearings for the proposed Dewey-Burdock Project, Powertech’s proposed uranium mine in the southern Black Hills here in South Dakota. You can read the water...
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Water Rights, Day Two
First, as a note, you can listen to the hearing recording here, and it will be posted at the end of each day: http://denr.sd.gov/powertech_wmb.aspx#Audio1 We continue with “B” invervenors today, people...
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Mining permit hearings continued – NO MINING PERMIT THIS YEAR
The South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment has issued an order continuing (putting off, tabling, however you like to say it in non-lawerspeak) until after all other permits have been granted....
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Countdown to Pierre – Uranium mining
It really isn’t a difficult question: do you think water should be protected from overuse and contamination? The answer for everyone should be, “absolutely.” Over the course of the past year, South...
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Three days in – how is Pierre?
As with all sessions, things in Pierre have started slow. People getting reoriented, reacquainted, and for those lucky seven legislators nominated by the Governor, getting their feet into the...
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Tall tales of Powertech and the agency that supports them
At the beginning of each session (or close to it, anyway), each state department presents about their year to their corresponding legislative committee. This morning, the House and Senate Agriculture...
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Protect Our Water podcast is up – download now!
Download it now: Protect Our Water, VOTE YES on HB 1193. HB 1193 is up for a quick hearing this Tuesday, February 11. In an on-going effort to ensure South Dakota’s groundwater quality isn’t...
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HB 1193 doesn’t pass
Our water bill (HB 1193) went in front of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee this week, with some testimony Tuesday and the final testimony and vote Thursday. Several Dakota Rural...
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It is official: protecting our ground water is up to us
We have a problem in this state. There is no other way to open this blog post. We have three fully allocated aquifers East River, where no more water rights can be granted. Seven more aquifers are...
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Cool, Clear Water…Maybe
by Robin EH. Bagley While uranium mining and the groundwater associated with it aren’t the focus of this year’ legislative session, one only has to read back through this blog to see the lack of...
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