Last night, NDN Collective, Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, and Earthworks filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service for their decision in February to grant a permit for exploratory drilling at Pe’ Sla, a sacred and protected Indigenous site. PeSla, Spring of 2025. BHCWA file photo. The lawsuit is partly based on the Forest … Continue reading LAWSUIT FILED TO STOP GRAPHITE PROJECT AT PE’ SLA
SECOND URANIUM EXPLORATION PROJECT THREATENS CRAVEN CANYON A Canadian company has applied for a second time to explore for radioactive uranium at Craven Canyon in the southern Black Hills. This project is named the October Jinx Project, which is on federal land. It is part of the larger Chord Project. The company is named Clean Nuclear Energy Corporation … Continue reading CALL TO ACTION: COMMENTS NEEDED TO PROTECT CRAVEN CANYON
January 7, 2026 Press Release Contact: Lilias Jarding, Ph.D. edbhcwa@gmail.com The large out-of-state – and often international -- mining companies operating in the Black Hills have a history of doing business here using a public front that is an entity that is organized in South Dakota. The local Powertech Uranium is a subsidiary of Texas-based … Continue reading DID LIEN SELL OUT?
Add your name to protect sacred site Pe’Sla: PROTECT SACRED SITE PE’SLA - DENY DRILLING PERMIT TO PETE LIEN & SONS THE PROBLEM: SACRED INDIGENOUS LAND AND RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK. In the sacred He Sápa, known in English as the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Lakota sacred site known as Pe’ Sla (“pay-SHLAH”) … Continue reading Sign the Petition! Help Protect Pe’Sla from Graphite Drilling
Ponderosa Exploration Drilling Project #64551 Scoping notice was published 7/20/25. Comments are requested through 7/21/2025 11:59:59 PM (Mountain Standard Time). https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=64551 The Northern Hills District of Black Hills National Forest has released information for the proposed Ponderosa gold drilling project, with a 30-day comment period. Your comments are due by July 21, 2025, at 11:59 … Continue reading ATTENTION! PONDEROSA PROJECT COMMENT PERIOD BEGINS NOW!
Two actions by the federal government over the last few weeks could impact our work in the Black Hills, particularly around uranium mining.
Black Hills Clean Water Alliance 