Tag: south dakota
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National Grid Renewables kicks off construction on South Dakota’s largest solar project
National Grid Renewables has started onsite field construction at its 128 MWac Wild Springs Solar Project in Pennington County, South Dakota. Wild Springs represents the largest solar energy project yet in the state, located in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) with a 114 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Basin Electric Power Cooperative. “Wild Springs……
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Undercover Agents Infiltrate Tar Sands Action Training
After a week of careful planning, environmentalists attending a tar sands resistance action camp in Oklahoma thought they had the element of surprise—but they would soon learn that their moves were being closely watched by …
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Monsanto’s GMO ‘Agent Orange’ Crops Already Planted in North Dakota
Monsanto is planning to offer financial incentives to farmers to spray additional types of herbicides. And if soybean growers don’t adopt the new dicamba seeds, their conventional (or even their RoundUp-Ready) soy will be threatened, as dicamba drifts over from their neighbors’ fields. So they’ll pretty much have to get with the dicamba program.
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills Advance Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda in 2013
ALEC bills in recent years have pulled states out of regional climate initiatives, opposed carbon dioxide emission standards, created hurdles for state agencies attempting to regulate pollution and tried to stop …
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Breaking: Nine Arrested After Halting Construction at Keystone XL Pump Station
Early this morning, eight individuals blocked construction of a pump station for TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Seminole land-by-treaty by locking on to equipment in the largest action yet by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance. The group took …