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Uranium mine permits – info, hearing dates, and locations
Our water, land, and way of life are threatened by the proposed uranium mine in the southern Black Hills. It is imperative that everyone possible attend these hearings. Whether you come for an hour, a...
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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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The work of the people
Today and tomorrow, DRA members are here in Pierre! It is astounding how much people can get done, and how much good can actually happen, when it is citizens talking to decision makers. Direct...
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HCR 1025 – Our groundwater is IMPORTANT
We may have lost a bill that would have protected our groundwater, but we can still make a statement that our groundwater is important – more important than anything else, in fact, because everything...
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HCR 1025 Ground Water Resolution Vote – YES 36, no 30
HCR 1025 was up today, reaffirming how valuable our ground water really is here in South Dakota. It is a resolution which actually directly impacts South Dakotans and our quality of life – because...
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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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We Need to Protect Our Resources Now
by Robin EH. Bagley I recently read an article about Stephen Hawking’s prediction that we (as in humans) are taking our species to the brink and will need to colonize space in the next 1,000 – 10,000...
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The Perennial Issue of Water
by Carl Kline Some years ago, I took a group of twenty from the U.S. to India. Our place of residence was the Kasturbagram Rural Institute in Madhya Pradesh. It was a teacher training institution for...
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