Mining / Pipelines / Oil / Gas / Energy

The state mining board is approving an economic study for Dakota Gold as part of putting together an application for a mining permit in the northern Black Hills. The company wants to open a large-scale gold mine approximately five miles northwest of Lead at its Richmond Hill location.

The Environmental Protection Agency is reissuing permits for a proposed Uranium recovery project in the southern Black Hills.

Summit Carbon Solutions is pausing its application for approval to build a CO2 pipeline across South Dakota.

Gov. Larry Rhoden is signing a bill prohibiting the use of eminent domain for carbon pipeline projects in South Dakota.

South Dakota Senators are sending a bill to prohibit the use of eminent domain for carbon pipeline projects to Governor Larry Rhoden’s desk.

A Senate panel is advancing a bill to completely ban the use of eminent domain for carbon pipeline projects.

The Public Utilities Commission is approving a major new wind energy project in northeast South Dakota.

A Black Hills mining company says it’s found a “robust” potential deposit of minerals in the northern Black Hills.

South Dakota House lawmakers are advancing a bill that prohibits liquid carbon dioxide pipeline companies from using eminent domain to complete its projects. Canton Republican Karla Lems said South Dakota should be more like Minnesota—which prohibits eminent domain for carbon pipelines.

A South Dakota House committee is advancing a bill to ban the use of eminent domain for liquid carbon dioxide pipelines.