Since the Republican-owned South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment is far more about minerals than about the environment the state Department of Ecocide and Natural Ruination (DENR) covers for polluters but the $30,000 they have squirreled away isn't nearly enough to repair gas well damage.
Forty gas wells in northwestern South Dakota their owner abandoned would be reclaimed by state government under a three-part plan lawmakers considered Wednesday. The state board wants to also use a $130,000 bond that was forfeited by an oil well project near Wasta. The third piece of Governor Kristi Noem’s package, SB 17, would appropriate up to $727,700 from the state treasury to complete the Spyglass cleanup. DENR officials have estimated the total cost at about $877,000. “We have a bankrupt company and responsibility falls to the state (government),” Representative Thomas Brunner, a Nisland Republican, said during the House discussion of HB 1025. Representative Oren Lesmeister, a Parade Democrat, explained why he was the only committee member to vote against the bill. He said he wanted the bond amounts raised even higher. [KELO teevee]Gold prices are heading higher as coronavirus fears drive panic buying so South Dakota School of Mines President Jim Rankin believes there's no time like the present to rape Native cultural sites in He Sapa, The Heart of Everything That Is. Imagine these projects going through cemeteries where people of European descent are buried.
Yes, socialized agriculture, socialized dairies, socialized cheese, socialized livestock production, a socialized timber industry, socialized air service, socialized freight rail, a socialized nursing home industry, a socialized internet and now socialized gas well remediation are all fine with Republicans in South Dakota but then they insist single-payer medical insurance is socialized medicine.
This time, protestors should know what they might be up against. https://t.co/WI2oboznLh— ACLU of Montana (@ACLUMT) February 6, 2020
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