NRC MUST CONSIDER CULTURAL RESOURCES ISSUE Powertech Uranium's Dewey-Burdock project in Custer and Fall River Counties needs a new license. Its original license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is expiring -- even though it's never been used due to challenges to the project by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and citizens' groups. The NRC license is … Continue reading VICTORY! BHCWA AND OTHERS WILL PARTICIPATE IN URANIUM LICENSING PROCESS
We recently ran an update on the active mining claims held by F3 Gold, which has a permit from the US Forest Service to do exploratory drilling just west of Custer called the Newark Project. The company also requested permission from the Forest Service for a drilling project just northwest of Pactola Reservoir by Jenny Gulch. … Continue reading Is F3 Gold Leaving?
Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland signed Public Land Order 7956, which finalized protections for 20,510 acres of land and water in the Pactola Reservoir – Upper Rapid Creek area from drilling and mining for 20 years. This Order, which created a mineral claims withdrawal, is a result of the actions and voices … Continue reading PACTOLA RESERVOIR – RAPID CREEK WATERSHED MINERAL WITHDRAWAL IS APPROVED
Betty the Beaver needs our help to protect her, and others', watershed. Join us for our 2024 Comment Challenge to help generate 2,024 Comments supporting the Pactola Reservoir-Rapid Creek Watershed Withdrawal proposal by the US Forest Service. "The USFS requested 20,574 acres of NFS lands be withdrawn (closed) to all forms of entry, appropriation, and … Continue reading Betty the Beaver Pleas for Help “Protect My Watershed” – Joins our 2024 Comment Challenge.
The US Forest Service has issued a draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) in support of the proposed Pactola Reservoir - Rapid Creek Watershed mineral claims withdrawal that was proposed in March, 2023. This is the proposed 20,574-acre mineral withdrawal around Pactola Reservoir and along Upper Rapid Creek – the … Continue reading SAY YES! Support the Forest Service’s proposal to Protect 20,574 acres of the Black Hills.
A VICTORY for the Oglala Sioux Tribe and everyone who opposes uranium mining in the Black Hills! Powertech (now a subsidiary of enCore Energy) planned to start mining uranium in the southwestern Black Hills in 2009. Thanks to the Oglala Sioux Tribe, the BHCWA and its allies, and you -- they are not mining and … Continue reading OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE WINS LEGAL CASE SENDING POWERTECH DEWEY-BURDOCK URANIUM MINE PERMITS BACK TO EPA’S REGION 8 FOR FURTHER REVIEW!
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