Some Avon Residents Balk at Wind Power; Pierre Building Biggest Solar Plant...
Conservatives celebrate Big Oil projects and ridicule environmentalists who argue that we should leave oil in the ground. Yet conservative former legislator, now Bon Homme County Commission candidate,...
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Prevailing Winds Pulls Wind Farm Application; Iowa Charges Ahead
Prevailing Winds moved yesterday to withdraw its application to build a 100-turbine, 201-megawatt wind farm in Bon Homme and Charles Mix counties. In a document submitted to the Public Utilities...
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WAPA Taking Comment on Proposed Butte County Wind Farm thru Sept. 9
The Western Area Power Administration has posted for public review and comment its draft environmental assessment of the Willow Creek Wind Energy Facility, a $210-million, 45-turbine, 103-megawatt wind...
View ArticleLincoln County May Get Referendum on Wind Turbine Ordinances
The Lincoln County Commission holds a public hearing on two proposed wind tower ordinances on Tuesday, December 27. The setbacks ordinance would increase the required minimum distance between a wind...
View ArticleSeven CAFO Permits Pending, Including 7200-Head Facility Near Beresford
An eager reader sends an update from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources listing seven pending Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) applications that are open for public...
View ArticlePUC Blocks Clark County Wind Farm
The Public Utilities Commission yesterday rejected an application from Minnesota-based Geronimo Energy to build the Crocker Wind Farm in Clark County. Geronimo says its project would take less than 50...
View ArticleColorado Wind Turbine Builder Digs Without PUC Permit
Scout Clean Energy of Boulder, Colorado, did dirt work at a proposed wind farm site in Hand County without a permit from the Public Utilities Commission. Commissioner Chris Nelson is understandably...
View ArticleDaugaard Joins War on Coal, Says Gas Cheaper, Better with Wind
Hey, Republicans! Your own Governor Dennis Daugaard has joined the “War on Coal”: I do think coal has seen its day. More and more power companies, notwithstanding what President Trump has done, see...
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EIA Map Shows South Dakota Wind Farm Desert
The U.S. Energy Information Agency provides a remarkable interactive map showing the location of American energy resources, production facilities, and transmission infrastructure. This map shows wind...
View ArticleFacebook Backs Nebraska Wind Farm to Power Papillion Data Center
Speaking of wind power, Facebook is jump-starting a stalled wind farm in Nebraska, just fifteen crow-flying miles southwest of SDGOP chairman Dan Lederman’s house in Dakota Dunes: The upcoming...
View ArticleNoem/Trump Tax Plan Kills 409 Wind Turbine Blade Jobs in Aberdeen
Rep. Kristi Noem chirps without detail about her goals on the Trump Tax conference committee: I’ll be coming to these negotiations with two goals in mind: (1) promote stronger families and (2) create a...
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LRC to Present Issue Memos Monday on Wind Energy, Federal Ed Laws, and...
The Executive Board of the South Dakota Legislature will hear three juicy Issue Memos at next week. The memos aren’t up yet, but the agenda for Monday’s E-Board meeting promises three policy papers...
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PUC Approves New Wind Farm in SE SD; Positive Blog Coverage Helps Wash Away...
Prevailing Wind Park proposed site in red, spanning Dry Choteau Creek, Charles Mix/Bon Homme County border. From PWP application to PUC, map dated 2018.05.26. The Public Utilities Commission has...
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Noem Vetoes PUC Authority on Solar Plants, Signs Wind/Solar Leases by School...
Governor Kristi Noem didn’t produce a Glamour Shots video of her first veto the way she did for her first bill signing. She just sent out the standard veto message, saying she vetoed Senate Bill 14...
View ArticleHB 1226 Seeks to Triple Setbacks for Wind Turbines, Despite No Evidence of Harm
Some Republicans want to encourage green energy, but other Republicans continue to do the bidding of the fossil-fuel industry by trying to throw spokes into wind turbines. The latest caveman attack...
View ArticleTripled Wind Turbine Setbacks Die; Weis Votes Against Aberdeen Jobs
In other good news about bad bills, House Commerce and Energy killed Rep. Lee Qualm’s (R-21/Platte) effort to triple setbacks for wind turbines and hamstring the expansion of wind energy in South...
View ArticlePUC Has “Far Too Many Wind Farms” Seeking Approval
The Public Utilities Commission is swamped with wind farm applications—isn’t this the problem South Dakota has long wanted to have? Altogether there were five wind projects on the meeting agenda...
View ArticleInslee: Wind Turbines Cause Jobs, Not Cancer
I heard Washington Governor and Presidential candidate Jay Inslee speak intelligently Friday morning on NPR about his broad and sensible environmental vision. Intelligent speech alone distinguishes...
View ArticleDanish MP Shows Trump Wind Power Is Better Deal Than Coal
Wind power is cheaper, more reliable, and less harmful than coal-generated power. Danish MP Ida Auken shows how to package those facts in a wonderful video that templates how all of us running against...
View ArticleWestra Says Wind and Solar Don’t Create Enough Jobs to Receive Corporate...
Bob Mercer follows up and gets the Governor’s Office of Economic Development to tell us why the state rejected Triple H Wind Farm’s request for a tax kickback like the state has handed to other...
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