Odenbach: make America great again but not upstream of my house

It's no secret South Dakota is a chemical toilet since Republican is simply another word for Earth hater. Recall that the South Dakota Republican Party ceded authority to the US Environmental Protection Agency and Nuclear Regulatory Commission for uranium mining in the Black Hills after the legislature realized there is no competent oversight from state agencies. 

But several months ago House Majority Leader Scott Odenbach (R-Spearditch) shared several graphics at his Faceberg page from the state's 2022 report of impaired waterways in South Dakota with concerns that Spearditch Creek might look like the Big Sioux River one day. A Canada-based company with an office in Lead (where they don't pay any corporate income taxes) wants to mine on 46,000 acres in the Spearditch Creek watershed leased from Barrick, another Canadian exploiter. The Black Hills region is a de facto part of the American Redoubt so Rep. Odenbach is tapped into the survivalist real estate boom, too. 

He penned an op-ed published in an East River paper.

Dare we ask, do we want or need more open-pit mining in this area? Will another hundred septic tanks upstream from your house make your quality of life better? HCR 6010 is just saying the quiet part out loud. [VIEWPOINT | Protecting the Black Hills]

Odenbach's resolution has Democratic support but how can a legislator who believes America is only great when Republican presidents are in power revere an executive who is slashing the EPA, promising to clearcut the Black Hills National Forest, pledging to mine public lands sacred to Indigenous peoples, erasing the workforce and putting septic systems in sensitive habitats all in the name of making America great again?

Stripping public lands, ending sanctions on Russian timber and slapping tariffs on Canadian lumber? What a shocker.