A vacuum truck sprays drilling mud on the land to disperse it, allowing soils microbial action to break down toxics, in what is known by the oil-and-gas industry as land-farming. Photo from Toxfree
High Court takes on waste dump issue near Pine Ridge
By Talli Nauman
Native Sun News
Health & Environment Editor VERMILLION –– The state Supreme Court has asked to hear oral arguments at the University of South Dakota Law School on Oct. 7, regarding a citizens’ referendum to prevent Wyoming oil industry drilling waste from being dumped in Fall River County, South Dakota, adjacent to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The general public is welcome to attend, according to Cheryl Fair, a county resident among those who gathered more than 250 petition signatures to successfully place the referendum on the ballot in the Nov. 4 general election for the purpose of overturning the county commission’s June 2014 approval of the waste handling project. The proposed operation would consist of what is known as soil land-farming, a waste-management practice in which oil and gas wastes in the form of used drilling mud are mixed with or applied to the land surface in a contained area.
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