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Actually it depends on the geography more than anything, up here in the northern plains. Coal still dominates natural gas gaining.There is no such thing as clean coal, and there are no clean coal plants, despite what you might want to call them.
Proving you are ignorant of the FACTS. A common trait among Progressives.
Coal pollution mitigation
Main article: Coal pollution mitigation
See also: Clean coal technology
"Clean" coal technology usually addresses atmospheric problems resulting from burning coal. Historically, the primary focus was on SO2 and NOx, the most important gases which caused acid rain; and particulates which cause visible air pollution, illness and premature deaths. SO2 can be removed by flue-gas desulfurization and NO2 by selective catalytic reduction (SCR). Particulates can be removed with electrostatic precipitators. Although perhaps less efficient wet scrubbers can remove both gases and particulates. And mercury emissions can be reduced up to 95%.[133] However capturing carbon dioxide emissions is generally not economically viable.
Coal - Wikipedia
Yes, they can remove some of the pollutants, but what is left is causing more harm than it is worth. You can't point to any specific example of coal usage that isn't harmful to our environment. Much cleaner natural gas prices have made coal the horse and buggy of energy sources.
Fossil fuels are here to stay for the foreseeable future... fact
lolLolWhat happens to the crime rate in Sturgis when Bike Week is deleted? Sturgis has a population of fewer than 7,000 permanent citizens. Bike week it jumps to over 600,000.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2019: Fatal crashes down, but arrests up
Michael Klinski, Sioux Falls Argus LeaderPublished 2:46 p.m. CT Aug. 11, 2019 | Updated 2:47 p.m. CT Aug. 11, 2019
The Sturgis Rally ended Sunday with just two fatalities reported from the week-long event. That's down from four reported last year, according to final numbers compiled by the Highway Patrol.
While fatalities were down, arrests and citations are all up.
The Highway Patrol said it made 171 DUI arrests (149 in 2018), 213 misdemeanor drug arrests (175) and 131 felony drug arrests (77).
The number of citations and warnings also increased.
Injury accidents were down to 52 from 56 last year and non-injury crashes down to 41 from 50.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2019: Fatal crashes down, but arrests up
That can throw the statistics for a town of 7,000 for the year way out of context. I've been to Sturgis in a previous life several times. It's a wild time!
Yep,
Daryl is an old coot who still lives in the past and combines that with political correctness thinking he knows his ass from a hole in the ground. The fact remains violent crimes are almost nonexistent in western South Dakota... It’s actually the Indian reservations that skew the numbers more than anything else. It’s best to think of the Indian reservations as little Third World countries in the middle of the United States.... true shit holes, I know I lived on pine ridge Indian reservation until I was 17. As soon as I could I moved out of that shit hole.
Rapid City is listed currently listed as the most dangerous place to live in South Dakota. Not 20 years ago, not 40 years ago. Today. It boasts a higher homicide gun rate than NYC does. It's even slightly higher than Detroit. And it's NOT on the Indian Reservation. It's primarily white. And it's not far from where Chief Rustic lives. Now, I respect being proud of where one lives but first you must have something other than Mount Rushmore, a Chicken dancing on a hot plate and a few other carny tricks before you go off like he does. The fact remains, Rapid City is, was and probably always will be a very dangerous place. Why? It has a higher unemployment rate than the national average. And it has a lower pay scale than most places. Yes, there are some Rich that live there that skew the average. But the majority will be low scale. And it's got one really crooked cop shop to boot. One cop even tried to steal my Stetson one night but didn't get away with it. He was carrying. He must of thought I was either the craziest or the baddest dude that ever graced the Earth. I'll never tell which. I kept him in the club, spoke quietly and had him send one of his cop buddies out to his car for my stetson. In those days, a 300 dollar hat was hard to come by. You should have seen it. Things got real quiet. The Bass Player (Me a protected Species) was telling a cop (another protected species) to return my property. The Bikers that usually stuck up for the Band stayed out of it and his Cop Buddies just sat there quietly. But he returned the hat after his buddy went out and retrieved it. You see, the music stopped until I got my damned hat back. Right after that, the Cops all left and the party went on without them.
There are seven Indian reservations in South Dakota, you don’t think this skews the numbers?
Indians dominate the number of inmates in the Lawrence County Jail… Rapid City
pine ridge is within walking distance of Rapid City in the summer, You see Indians all the time walking down Highway 44.
Pine Ridge Reservation
STATISTICAL DATA
Despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Indigenous people are struggling hard to overcome decades of neglect, discrimination and forced destruction of their traditional cultures to promote a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency.
BRIEF STATISTICS
* 97% of of the population at Pine Ridge Reservation live below federal poverty line.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* Death due to Heart Disease: Twice the national average.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.
* At least 60% of the homes are severely substandard, without water, electricity, adequate insulation, and sewage systems.
* Recent reports state the average life expectancy is 45 years old while others state that it is 48 years old for men and 52 years old for women. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for any community in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
INTRODUCTORY
Hidden away, dotted throughout the landscape of America, are the Reservations of the Indigenous People of our land. Mostly unknown or forgotten by the mainstream culture of the dominant U.S. society, the average United States resident knows little or nothing about these people other than what romanticized versions they see in movies and television or else in their nearest Reservation casino. Most assume that whatever poverty exists on a reservation is most certainly comparable to that which they might experience themselves.
And definitely, mainstream Americans are accustomed to being exposed to poverty. It has become nearly invisible due to its overwhelming presence everywhere. We drive through our cities now with a blind eye, numb to the suffering around us. Even more, we watch the televised reports of Third World countries, shake our heads and turn away, rightfully assuming that our government and our charities will help those in need all over the globe.
But the question begs: What about the foreign nations on America's own soil, within this country, a part and yet apart from mainstream society? What about the Native American Nations on America's reservations? Few mainstream Americans know anything about the people that live on these reservations and fewer still know or comprehend the unconscionable conditions present on many of them.
What many do not know is that a staggering number of residents on Native American reservations live in abject conditions rivaling, or even surpassing, that of many Third World countries.
This report chronicles just one Nation, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Yet the name and only a few details could easily be changed to describe a host of others; Dineh (Navajo), Ute Mountain Ute, Tohono O'odham, Pima, Yaqui, Ojibwa, Chippewa, the list is long.
But despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Nation after Nation of Indigenous leaders and their people are working hard to counteract decades of oppression and forced destruction of their cultures to bring their citizens back to a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency in today's world.
Below are further in depth statistics of Pine Ridge
IN DEPTH STATISTICS
* The Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian Reservation sits in Bennett, Jackson, and Shannon Counties and is located in the southwest corner of South Dakota, fifty miles east of the Wyoming border.
* The 11,000-square mile (over 2 million acres) Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation is the second-largest Native American Reservation within the United States. It is roughly the size of the State of Connecticut.
* The Reservation is divided into eight districts: Eagle Nest, Pass Creek, Wakpamni, LaCreek, Pine Ridge, White Clay, Medicine Root, Porcupine, and Wounded Knee.
* The topography of the Pine Ridge Reservation includes badlands, rolling grassland hills, dryland prairie, and areas dotted with pine trees.
* According to the 1998 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census, the Pine Ridge Reservation is home to approximately 40,000 persons, 35% of which are under the age of 16. Approximately half the residents of the Reservation are registered tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Nation.
* The population is steadily rising, despite the severe conditions on the Reservation, as more and more Oglala Lakota return home from far-away cities in order to live within their societal values, be with their families, and assist with the revitalization of their culture and their Nation.
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 per year.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* There is no industry, technology, or commercial infrastructure on the Reservation to provide employment.
* The nearest town of size (which provides some jobs for those few persons able to travel the distance) is Rapid City, South Dakota with approximately 57,000 residents. It is located approximately 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine Ridge is Denver, Colorado located about 350 miles away.
* Some figures state that the life expectancy on the Reservation is 48 years old for men and 52 for women. Other reports state that the average life expectancy on the Reservation is 45 years old. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for a community anywhere in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
* Teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150% higher than the U.S. national average for this age group.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and malnutrition are rampant.
* The rate of diabetes on the Reservation is reported to be 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Recent reports indicate that almost 50% of the adults on the Reservation over the age of 40 have diabetes. Over 37% of population is diabetic.
* As a result of the high rate of diabetes on the Reservation, diabetic-related blindness, amputations, and kidney failure are common.
* The tuberculosis rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Each winter, Reservation Elders are found dead from hypothermia (freezing).
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are infested with Black Mold, Stachybotrys. This infestation causes an often-fatal condition with infants, children, elderly, those with damaged immune systems, and those with lung and pulmonary conditions at the highest risk. Exposure to this mold can cause hemorrhaging of the lungs and brain as well as cancer.
* Many Reservation residents live without health care due to vast travel distances involved in accessing that care. Additional factors include under-funded, under-staffed medical facilities and outdated or non-existent medical equipment. There is little hope for increased funding for Indian health care.
* Preventive healthcare programs are rare.
* In most of the treaties between the U.S. Government and Indian Nations, the U.S. government agreed to provide adequate medical care for Indians in return for vast quantities of land. The Indian Health Services (IHS) was set up to administer the health care for Indians under these treaties and receives an appropriation each year to fund Indian health care. Unfortunately, the appropriation is very small compared to the need. The IHS is understaffed and ill-equipped and can't possibly address the needs of Indian communities. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
* School drop-out rate is over 70%.
* According to a Bureau of Indian Affairs report, the Pine Ridge Reservation schools are in the bottom 10% of school funding by U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
* Teacher turnover is 800% that of the U.S. national average
* The small Tribal Housing Authority homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are so overcrowded and scarce that many homeless families often use tents or cars for shelter. Many families live in shacks, old trailers, or dilapidated mobile homes.
* There is a large homeless population on the Reservation, but most families never turn away a relative no matter how distant the blood relation. Consequently, many homes have large numbers of people living in them.
* There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (a home which may only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.
* 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.
* Over 33% of the Reservation homes lack basic water and sewage systems as well as electricity.
* Many residents must carry (often contaminated) water from the local rivers daily for their personal needs.
* 39% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation have no electricity.
* 59% of the Reservation homes are substandard.
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation need to be burned to the ground and replaced with new housing due to infestation of the potentially-fatal Black Mold, Stachybotrys. There is no insurance or government program to assist families in replacing their homes.
* Some Reservation families are forced to sleep on dirt floors.
* Many Reservation homes lack adequate insulation. Even more homes lack central heating.
* Without basic insulation or central heating in their homes, many residents on the Pine Ridge Reservation use their ovens to heat their homes.
* Many Reservation homes lack stoves, refrigerators, beds, and/or basic furniture.
* Most Reservation families live in rural and often isolated areas.
* The largest town on the Reservation is the town of Pine Ridge which has a population of approximately 5,720 people and is the administrative center for the Reservation.
* There are few improved roads on the Reservation and many of the homes are inaccessible during times of heavy snow or rain.
* Weather is extreme on the Reservation. Severe winds are always a factor. Traditionally, summer temperatures reach well over 110*F and winters bring bitter cold with temperatures that can reach -50*F below zero or worse. Flooding, tornados, or wildfires are always a risk.
* Many of the wells and much of the water and land on the Reservation is contaminated with pesticides and other poisons from farming, mining, open dumps, and commercial and governmental mining operations outside the Reservation. A further source of contamination is buried ordnance and hazardous materials from closed U.S. military bombing ranges on the Reservation.
* The Pine Ridge Reservation still has no banks, motels, discount stores, or movie theaters. It has only one grocery store of any moderate size and it is located in the town of Pine Ridge on the Reservation.
* Several of the banks and lending institutions nearest to the Reservation were recently targeted for investigation of fraudulent or predatory lending practices, with the citizens of the Pine Ridge Reservation as their victims.
* There are no public libraries except one at the Oglala Lakota College of the reservation.
* There is no public transportation available on the Reservation.
* Ownership of operable automobiles by residents of the Reservation is highly limited.
* Predominate form of travel for all ages on the Reservation is walking or hitchhiking.
* There is one very small airport on the Reservation servicing both the Pine Ridge Reservation and Shannon County. It's longest, paved runway extends 4,969 feet. There are no commercial flights available.
* There is one radio station on the Pine Ridge Reservation. KILI 90.1FM is located near the town of Porcupine on the Reservation.
* Alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on the Reservation.
* The death rate from alcohol-related problems on the Reservation is 300% higher than the remaining US population.
* The Oglala Lakota Nation has prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation since the early 1970's. However, the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (which sits 400 yards off the Reservation border in a contested "buffer" zone) has approximately 14 residents and four liquor stores which sell over 4.1 million cans of beer each year resulting in a $3million annual trade. Unlike other Nebraska communities, Whiteclay exists only to sell liquor and make money. It has no schools, no churches, no civic organizations, no parks, no benches, no public bathrooms, no fire service and no law enforcement. Tribal officials have repeatedly pleaded with the State of Nebraska to close these liquor stores or enforce the State laws regulating liquor stores but have been consistently refused.
* Scientific studies show that the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer which begins underneath the Pine Ridge Reservation is predicted to run dry within the next thirty years, possibly as early as the year 2005, due to commercial interest use and dryland farming in numerous states south of the Reservation. This critical North American underground water resource is not renewable at anything near the present consumption rate. The recent years of drought have simply accelerated the problem.
* Scientific studies show that much of the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer has been contaminated with farming pesticides and commercial, factory, mining, and industrial contaminants in the States of South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
* The Tribal nations are considered to have sovereign governmental status and have a government to government relationship with the United States. The Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribal government operates under a constitution consistent with the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and approved by the Tribal membership and Tribal Council of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. The Tribe is governed by an elected body consisting of a 5 member Executive Committee and an 18 member Tribal Council, all of whom serve a four year term.
(Compiled from recent political, government, and tribal publications)
If you wish a list of the resources and publications used for this report, please contact: Stephanie M. Schwartz at [email protected]
This has nothing to do with the Criminal Rate in current day Rapid City, SD. You are just throwing more Bullshit into the ball game.
What it does say is that it's more important than ever to develop alternate energy resources. Are you aware that there are some new methods to extract water from air using Electric Power? It's currently being developed in villages in Africa where there is NO flowing or standing water. Every cubic meter of air has some moisture in it. So we can have alternate Electricity and Alternate Water in the very near future. But if you had your way, nothing would be done. Glad you don't get your way.
You have obviously not been here for a very long time, Why don’t you drive up to Rapid City go to the Lawrence County Jail it’s right in downtown Rapid City. Go to the front desk and find out how many Indians are in that jail. I guarantee They make up the vast majority. Every year several of them drown in rapid Creek right downtown Rapid City, Because of public drunkenness.
Like I said North rapid is considered part of Pine Ridge Indian reservation. It is truly an embarrassment to us Indians who have successfully adapted. Did you know there’s an 80% domestic abuse rate... at least on the reservations?
Life on the reservations is only getting worse… Political correctness/socialism make sure of it.
People need to take care of their own shit… That is the first step
Not in the northern plainsActually it depends on the geography more than anything, up here in the northern plains. Coal still dominates natural gas gaining.There is no such thing as clean coal, and there are no clean coal plants, despite what you might want to call them.
Proving you are ignorant of the FACTS. A common trait among Progressives.
Coal pollution mitigation
Main article: Coal pollution mitigation
See also: Clean coal technology
"Clean" coal technology usually addresses atmospheric problems resulting from burning coal. Historically, the primary focus was on SO2 and NOx, the most important gases which caused acid rain; and particulates which cause visible air pollution, illness and premature deaths. SO2 can be removed by flue-gas desulfurization and NO2 by selective catalytic reduction (SCR). Particulates can be removed with electrostatic precipitators. Although perhaps less efficient wet scrubbers can remove both gases and particulates. And mercury emissions can be reduced up to 95%.[133] However capturing carbon dioxide emissions is generally not economically viable.
Coal - Wikipedia
Yes, they can remove some of the pollutants, but what is left is causing more harm than it is worth. You can't point to any specific example of coal usage that isn't harmful to our environment. Much cleaner natural gas prices have made coal the horse and buggy of energy sources.
Fossil fuels are here to stay for the foreseeable future... fact
Yes, we will be using oil products for quite a while longer, but coal is dead.
From your article:
Lolhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...states-use-the-most-renewable-energy?slide=11If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, like I have always said I am an all of the above type of guy.Lol
I always said I am an all of the above type of guy. Quitting cold turkey does no any good.
Renewables for decades away from being viable… Fact
The change has already started.....Fact.
Fossil fuels are here to stay here in the northern plains for the foreseeable future, Large scale renewable energy is not viable/available here.
People using renewable is on a personal level/small scale is working just fine here.
Every state should be allowed to do their own thing, in all things.
Too bad the federal government pretty much disregards to the 10th amendment, Fucking politically correct control freaks.
After all one size never fits all, never has... lol
South Dakota and most of the Red States fight it with a vengence. Meanwhile, Blue Western States embrace alternate energy while still out producing your precious South Dakota for Coal and Oil. Our Solar and Wind, alone, has enough power to power your entire state along with Wyoming by itself. 20% of our energy comes from Solar and Wind. And we are behind New Mexico.
One Red State (leaning Purple these days) is Texas and they have a couple of Energy Zero towns and cities. And those Towns and Cities are ran by Republicans. For every electric or gas unit they take from the system, they put the equivalent back in in electric power in their grid. What you are condemning California for doing, Texas is already doing and has been doing for years in some Towns and Cities. It's not a Red V Blue thing, it's a "What kind of life do we leave your Grand Kids".
Lol
The northern plains needs fossil fuels, That’s not changing anytime soon.
Like I said I am an all of the above type of guy. But you need to look at the reality, Not the politically correct fantasy...
That fantasy is NOW. FACT. Your URL just helped to prove it. Let's look at the states that are on that list.
10. Nebraska. Renewable Energy output 19% This is a strongly Red State.
9. New Hampshire. Renewable Energy output 19%. This is a strong Blue State
8. Vermont. Renewable Energy output of 29%. Another strong blue state
7. Idaho. Renewable Energy output of 27%. Another strong Red State.
6. Iowa. Renewable Energy output of 29%. This is a Swing State
5. Montana. Renewable Energy output of 31%. Strong Red State
4. South Dakota. Renewable Energy output 35%. Strong Red State
3. Main. Renewable Energy output of 36%. Strong Blue State
2. Washington. Renewable Energy of 44%. Strong Blue State
1. Oregon. Renewable Energy of 45%. Strong Blue State.
I listed if they were a blue or a red state but it turns out it's not a Partisan thing. And some made the list without a drop of Hydro Electric Power as well. It turns out that your South Dakota is higher on the renewable resource than my Colorado and you want to ding us for taking measures to clean our state up. California didn't make the list either.
One thing that was in every one of these was that lack of population with the exception of Washington and Oregon. They both have Major Cities. And yet lead the pack. And you are constantly deriding them for their renewable energy programs. Deride away. Come to find out, South Dakota is an exporter of alternate energy all along. You don't burn that coal you are digging up. You ship it to places that are dumb enough to burn it and have for years. Colorado has done the same until the last few years. But we have a higher population and our numbers will be lower for renewable energy at 20% versus 35% for South Dakota. But we are one of the higher Western States for population and require more energy. But by 2035 we will surpass South Dakota. It won't be easy but it's coming. If we use your way of thinking, we'll just stay the same or withdraw. When we have ozone in the air in Denver to such a degree that it can kill small children we had damned well better be doing something about that. BTW, that Ozone comes for Gas Powered Vehicles. Smog ain't the only thing they put. You just can't see or smell Ozone.
You found a list of the States Use the Most Renewable Energy but no one seems to show the opposite. If you can find that It would make a neat thing to discuss in another message line.
BTW, over 30% of that renewable energy is coming from Wind Farms in South Dakota. And more Wind Farms are on the way. Like I said, South Dakota is a windy place. It has to be. It has tall tellers of tales like you there and there is such a waste in wasting that energy.
Clean Grid Alliance | A Wind Energy Boom Is Coming To South Dakota
It appears that Solar isn't being used yet. And don't tell me it's because that you are so far north. Iowa disagrees. And Michigan is even more northern than you are and they are starting to push Solar. Like South Dakota, North Dakota isn't sponsoring in large scale solar either like states to the east of it are. Then again, North Dakota also gets a large percentage of their energy from wind. I guess that's from all those visiting Sodaks.
Imagine that. You have no idea what's happening in your very own State. That hovel must be pretty damned deep, dark and cold you live in.
The pine ridge Indian reservation along with the standing rock Indian reservation is the most violent place in South Dakota... FactlolLol
Yep,
Daryl is an old coot who still lives in the past and combines that with political correctness thinking he knows his ass from a hole in the ground. The fact remains violent crimes are almost nonexistent in western South Dakota... It’s actually the Indian reservations that skew the numbers more than anything else. It’s best to think of the Indian reservations as little Third World countries in the middle of the United States.... true shit holes, I know I lived on pine ridge Indian reservation until I was 17. As soon as I could I moved out of that shit hole.
Rapid City is listed currently listed as the most dangerous place to live in South Dakota. Not 20 years ago, not 40 years ago. Today. It boasts a higher homicide gun rate than NYC does. It's even slightly higher than Detroit. And it's NOT on the Indian Reservation. It's primarily white. And it's not far from where Chief Rustic lives. Now, I respect being proud of where one lives but first you must have something other than Mount Rushmore, a Chicken dancing on a hot plate and a few other carny tricks before you go off like he does. The fact remains, Rapid City is, was and probably always will be a very dangerous place. Why? It has a higher unemployment rate than the national average. And it has a lower pay scale than most places. Yes, there are some Rich that live there that skew the average. But the majority will be low scale. And it's got one really crooked cop shop to boot. One cop even tried to steal my Stetson one night but didn't get away with it. He was carrying. He must of thought I was either the craziest or the baddest dude that ever graced the Earth. I'll never tell which. I kept him in the club, spoke quietly and had him send one of his cop buddies out to his car for my stetson. In those days, a 300 dollar hat was hard to come by. You should have seen it. Things got real quiet. The Bass Player (Me a protected Species) was telling a cop (another protected species) to return my property. The Bikers that usually stuck up for the Band stayed out of it and his Cop Buddies just sat there quietly. But he returned the hat after his buddy went out and retrieved it. You see, the music stopped until I got my damned hat back. Right after that, the Cops all left and the party went on without them.
There are seven Indian reservations in South Dakota, you don’t think this skews the numbers?
Indians dominate the number of inmates in the Lawrence County Jail… Rapid City
pine ridge is within walking distance of Rapid City in the summer, You see Indians all the time walking down Highway 44.
Pine Ridge Reservation
STATISTICAL DATA
Despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Indigenous people are struggling hard to overcome decades of neglect, discrimination and forced destruction of their traditional cultures to promote a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency.
BRIEF STATISTICS
* 97% of of the population at Pine Ridge Reservation live below federal poverty line.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* Death due to Heart Disease: Twice the national average.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.
* At least 60% of the homes are severely substandard, without water, electricity, adequate insulation, and sewage systems.
* Recent reports state the average life expectancy is 45 years old while others state that it is 48 years old for men and 52 years old for women. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for any community in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
INTRODUCTORY
Hidden away, dotted throughout the landscape of America, are the Reservations of the Indigenous People of our land. Mostly unknown or forgotten by the mainstream culture of the dominant U.S. society, the average United States resident knows little or nothing about these people other than what romanticized versions they see in movies and television or else in their nearest Reservation casino. Most assume that whatever poverty exists on a reservation is most certainly comparable to that which they might experience themselves.
And definitely, mainstream Americans are accustomed to being exposed to poverty. It has become nearly invisible due to its overwhelming presence everywhere. We drive through our cities now with a blind eye, numb to the suffering around us. Even more, we watch the televised reports of Third World countries, shake our heads and turn away, rightfully assuming that our government and our charities will help those in need all over the globe.
But the question begs: What about the foreign nations on America's own soil, within this country, a part and yet apart from mainstream society? What about the Native American Nations on America's reservations? Few mainstream Americans know anything about the people that live on these reservations and fewer still know or comprehend the unconscionable conditions present on many of them.
What many do not know is that a staggering number of residents on Native American reservations live in abject conditions rivaling, or even surpassing, that of many Third World countries.
This report chronicles just one Nation, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Yet the name and only a few details could easily be changed to describe a host of others; Dineh (Navajo), Ute Mountain Ute, Tohono O'odham, Pima, Yaqui, Ojibwa, Chippewa, the list is long.
But despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Nation after Nation of Indigenous leaders and their people are working hard to counteract decades of oppression and forced destruction of their cultures to bring their citizens back to a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency in today's world.
Below are further in depth statistics of Pine Ridge
IN DEPTH STATISTICS
* The Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian Reservation sits in Bennett, Jackson, and Shannon Counties and is located in the southwest corner of South Dakota, fifty miles east of the Wyoming border.
* The 11,000-square mile (over 2 million acres) Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation is the second-largest Native American Reservation within the United States. It is roughly the size of the State of Connecticut.
* The Reservation is divided into eight districts: Eagle Nest, Pass Creek, Wakpamni, LaCreek, Pine Ridge, White Clay, Medicine Root, Porcupine, and Wounded Knee.
* The topography of the Pine Ridge Reservation includes badlands, rolling grassland hills, dryland prairie, and areas dotted with pine trees.
* According to the 1998 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census, the Pine Ridge Reservation is home to approximately 40,000 persons, 35% of which are under the age of 16. Approximately half the residents of the Reservation are registered tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Nation.
* The population is steadily rising, despite the severe conditions on the Reservation, as more and more Oglala Lakota return home from far-away cities in order to live within their societal values, be with their families, and assist with the revitalization of their culture and their Nation.
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 per year.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* There is no industry, technology, or commercial infrastructure on the Reservation to provide employment.
* The nearest town of size (which provides some jobs for those few persons able to travel the distance) is Rapid City, South Dakota with approximately 57,000 residents. It is located approximately 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine Ridge is Denver, Colorado located about 350 miles away.
* Some figures state that the life expectancy on the Reservation is 48 years old for men and 52 for women. Other reports state that the average life expectancy on the Reservation is 45 years old. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for a community anywhere in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
* Teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150% higher than the U.S. national average for this age group.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and malnutrition are rampant.
* The rate of diabetes on the Reservation is reported to be 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Recent reports indicate that almost 50% of the adults on the Reservation over the age of 40 have diabetes. Over 37% of population is diabetic.
* As a result of the high rate of diabetes on the Reservation, diabetic-related blindness, amputations, and kidney failure are common.
* The tuberculosis rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Each winter, Reservation Elders are found dead from hypothermia (freezing).
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are infested with Black Mold, Stachybotrys. This infestation causes an often-fatal condition with infants, children, elderly, those with damaged immune systems, and those with lung and pulmonary conditions at the highest risk. Exposure to this mold can cause hemorrhaging of the lungs and brain as well as cancer.
* Many Reservation residents live without health care due to vast travel distances involved in accessing that care. Additional factors include under-funded, under-staffed medical facilities and outdated or non-existent medical equipment. There is little hope for increased funding for Indian health care.
* Preventive healthcare programs are rare.
* In most of the treaties between the U.S. Government and Indian Nations, the U.S. government agreed to provide adequate medical care for Indians in return for vast quantities of land. The Indian Health Services (IHS) was set up to administer the health care for Indians under these treaties and receives an appropriation each year to fund Indian health care. Unfortunately, the appropriation is very small compared to the need. The IHS is understaffed and ill-equipped and can't possibly address the needs of Indian communities. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
* School drop-out rate is over 70%.
* According to a Bureau of Indian Affairs report, the Pine Ridge Reservation schools are in the bottom 10% of school funding by U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
* Teacher turnover is 800% that of the U.S. national average
* The small Tribal Housing Authority homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are so overcrowded and scarce that many homeless families often use tents or cars for shelter. Many families live in shacks, old trailers, or dilapidated mobile homes.
* There is a large homeless population on the Reservation, but most families never turn away a relative no matter how distant the blood relation. Consequently, many homes have large numbers of people living in them.
* There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (a home which may only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.
* 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.
* Over 33% of the Reservation homes lack basic water and sewage systems as well as electricity.
* Many residents must carry (often contaminated) water from the local rivers daily for their personal needs.
* 39% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation have no electricity.
* 59% of the Reservation homes are substandard.
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation need to be burned to the ground and replaced with new housing due to infestation of the potentially-fatal Black Mold, Stachybotrys. There is no insurance or government program to assist families in replacing their homes.
* Some Reservation families are forced to sleep on dirt floors.
* Many Reservation homes lack adequate insulation. Even more homes lack central heating.
* Without basic insulation or central heating in their homes, many residents on the Pine Ridge Reservation use their ovens to heat their homes.
* Many Reservation homes lack stoves, refrigerators, beds, and/or basic furniture.
* Most Reservation families live in rural and often isolated areas.
* The largest town on the Reservation is the town of Pine Ridge which has a population of approximately 5,720 people and is the administrative center for the Reservation.
* There are few improved roads on the Reservation and many of the homes are inaccessible during times of heavy snow or rain.
* Weather is extreme on the Reservation. Severe winds are always a factor. Traditionally, summer temperatures reach well over 110*F and winters bring bitter cold with temperatures that can reach -50*F below zero or worse. Flooding, tornados, or wildfires are always a risk.
* Many of the wells and much of the water and land on the Reservation is contaminated with pesticides and other poisons from farming, mining, open dumps, and commercial and governmental mining operations outside the Reservation. A further source of contamination is buried ordnance and hazardous materials from closed U.S. military bombing ranges on the Reservation.
* The Pine Ridge Reservation still has no banks, motels, discount stores, or movie theaters. It has only one grocery store of any moderate size and it is located in the town of Pine Ridge on the Reservation.
* Several of the banks and lending institutions nearest to the Reservation were recently targeted for investigation of fraudulent or predatory lending practices, with the citizens of the Pine Ridge Reservation as their victims.
* There are no public libraries except one at the Oglala Lakota College of the reservation.
* There is no public transportation available on the Reservation.
* Ownership of operable automobiles by residents of the Reservation is highly limited.
* Predominate form of travel for all ages on the Reservation is walking or hitchhiking.
* There is one very small airport on the Reservation servicing both the Pine Ridge Reservation and Shannon County. It's longest, paved runway extends 4,969 feet. There are no commercial flights available.
* There is one radio station on the Pine Ridge Reservation. KILI 90.1FM is located near the town of Porcupine on the Reservation.
* Alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on the Reservation.
* The death rate from alcohol-related problems on the Reservation is 300% higher than the remaining US population.
* The Oglala Lakota Nation has prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation since the early 1970's. However, the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (which sits 400 yards off the Reservation border in a contested "buffer" zone) has approximately 14 residents and four liquor stores which sell over 4.1 million cans of beer each year resulting in a $3million annual trade. Unlike other Nebraska communities, Whiteclay exists only to sell liquor and make money. It has no schools, no churches, no civic organizations, no parks, no benches, no public bathrooms, no fire service and no law enforcement. Tribal officials have repeatedly pleaded with the State of Nebraska to close these liquor stores or enforce the State laws regulating liquor stores but have been consistently refused.
* Scientific studies show that the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer which begins underneath the Pine Ridge Reservation is predicted to run dry within the next thirty years, possibly as early as the year 2005, due to commercial interest use and dryland farming in numerous states south of the Reservation. This critical North American underground water resource is not renewable at anything near the present consumption rate. The recent years of drought have simply accelerated the problem.
* Scientific studies show that much of the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer has been contaminated with farming pesticides and commercial, factory, mining, and industrial contaminants in the States of South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
* The Tribal nations are considered to have sovereign governmental status and have a government to government relationship with the United States. The Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribal government operates under a constitution consistent with the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and approved by the Tribal membership and Tribal Council of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. The Tribe is governed by an elected body consisting of a 5 member Executive Committee and an 18 member Tribal Council, all of whom serve a four year term.
(Compiled from recent political, government, and tribal publications)
If you wish a list of the resources and publications used for this report, please contact: Stephanie M. Schwartz at [email protected]
This has nothing to do with the Criminal Rate in current day Rapid City, SD. You are just throwing more Bullshit into the ball game.
What it does say is that it's more important than ever to develop alternate energy resources. Are you aware that there are some new methods to extract water from air using Electric Power? It's currently being developed in villages in Africa where there is NO flowing or standing water. Every cubic meter of air has some moisture in it. So we can have alternate Electricity and Alternate Water in the very near future. But if you had your way, nothing would be done. Glad you don't get your way.
You have obviously not been here for a very long time, Why don’t you drive up to Rapid City go to the Lawrence County Jail it’s right in downtown Rapid City. Go to the front desk and find out how many Indians are in that jail. I guarantee They make up the vast majority. Every year several of them drown in rapid Creek right downtown Rapid City, Because of public drunkenness.
Like I said North rapid is considered part of Pine Ridge Indian reservation. It is truly an embarrassment to us Indians who have successfully adapted. Did you know there’s an 80% domestic abuse rate... at least on the reservations?
Life on the reservations is only getting worse… Political correctness/socialism make sure of it.
People need to take care of their own shit… That is the first step
Do the same in Cortez Colorado with the Navajo. Murder Rate ZERO. Even a bigger hard luck story than the Sioux.
Lolhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...states-use-the-most-renewable-energy?slide=11If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, like I have always said I am an all of the above type of guy.The change has already started.....Fact.
Fossil fuels are here to stay here in the northern plains for the foreseeable future, Large scale renewable energy is not viable/available here.
People using renewable is on a personal level/small scale is working just fine here.
Every state should be allowed to do their own thing, in all things.
Too bad the federal government pretty much disregards to the 10th amendment, Fucking politically correct control freaks.
After all one size never fits all, never has... lol
South Dakota and most of the Red States fight it with a vengence. Meanwhile, Blue Western States embrace alternate energy while still out producing your precious South Dakota for Coal and Oil. Our Solar and Wind, alone, has enough power to power your entire state along with Wyoming by itself. 20% of our energy comes from Solar and Wind. And we are behind New Mexico.
One Red State (leaning Purple these days) is Texas and they have a couple of Energy Zero towns and cities. And those Towns and Cities are ran by Republicans. For every electric or gas unit they take from the system, they put the equivalent back in in electric power in their grid. What you are condemning California for doing, Texas is already doing and has been doing for years in some Towns and Cities. It's not a Red V Blue thing, it's a "What kind of life do we leave your Grand Kids".
Lol
The northern plains needs fossil fuels, That’s not changing anytime soon.
Like I said I am an all of the above type of guy. But you need to look at the reality, Not the politically correct fantasy...
That fantasy is NOW. FACT. Your URL just helped to prove it. Let's look at the states that are on that list.
10. Nebraska. Renewable Energy output 19% This is a strongly Red State.
9. New Hampshire. Renewable Energy output 19%. This is a strong Blue State
8. Vermont. Renewable Energy output of 29%. Another strong blue state
7. Idaho. Renewable Energy output of 27%. Another strong Red State.
6. Iowa. Renewable Energy output of 29%. This is a Swing State
5. Montana. Renewable Energy output of 31%. Strong Red State
4. South Dakota. Renewable Energy output 35%. Strong Red State
3. Main. Renewable Energy output of 36%. Strong Blue State
2. Washington. Renewable Energy of 44%. Strong Blue State
1. Oregon. Renewable Energy of 45%. Strong Blue State.
I listed if they were a blue or a red state but it turns out it's not a Partisan thing. And some made the list without a drop of Hydro Electric Power as well. It turns out that your South Dakota is higher on the renewable resource than my Colorado and you want to ding us for taking measures to clean our state up. California didn't make the list either.
One thing that was in every one of these was that lack of population with the exception of Washington and Oregon. They both have Major Cities. And yet lead the pack. And you are constantly deriding them for their renewable energy programs. Deride away. Come to find out, South Dakota is an exporter of alternate energy all along. You don't burn that coal you are digging up. You ship it to places that are dumb enough to burn it and have for years. Colorado has done the same until the last few years. But we have a higher population and our numbers will be lower for renewable energy at 20% versus 35% for South Dakota. But we are one of the higher Western States for population and require more energy. But by 2035 we will surpass South Dakota. It won't be easy but it's coming. If we use your way of thinking, we'll just stay the same or withdraw. When we have ozone in the air in Denver to such a degree that it can kill small children we had damned well better be doing something about that. BTW, that Ozone comes for Gas Powered Vehicles. Smog ain't the only thing they put. You just can't see or smell Ozone.
You found a list of the States Use the Most Renewable Energy but no one seems to show the opposite. If you can find that It would make a neat thing to discuss in another message line.
BTW, over 30% of that renewable energy is coming from Wind Farms in South Dakota. And more Wind Farms are on the way. Like I said, South Dakota is a windy place. It has to be. It has tall tellers of tales like you there and there is such a waste in wasting that energy.
Clean Grid Alliance | A Wind Energy Boom Is Coming To South Dakota
It appears that Solar isn't being used yet. And don't tell me it's because that you are so far north. Iowa disagrees. And Michigan is even more northern than you are and they are starting to push Solar. Like South Dakota, North Dakota isn't sponsoring in large scale solar either like states to the east of it are. Then again, North Dakota also gets a large percentage of their energy from wind. I guess that's from all those visiting Sodaks.
Imagine that. You have no idea what's happening in your very own State. That hovel must be pretty damned deep, dark and cold you live in.
We’ve had 30% of our power supplied by renewables for very long time now, and it’s probably not gonna get much over that.
Because the wind is inconsistent here, they can’t make the bearings stand up for very long. Most of the wind turbines have to be replaced in a short time. Because they lose up to 30% of their efficiency in the first year alone.
Fossil fuel still dominates the northern plains and will for the foreseeable future.
Like I said all along i an all of the above type of guy, But the reality is fossil fuels supply the power up here.
Solar is farther along than wind, less moving parts. The solar is only feasible on small scale up here which is fine as the way it should be. Private choice.
Either way they still depend on batteries… Batteries aren’t only more toxic than any fossil fuels, They have to be made in Canada because the environmental reasons(that’s a head scratcher lol) apparently and are extremely expensive.
We have an unlimited supply of oil/Coal and natural gas in the northern plains... Might as well use it...just as they are doing.
The pine ridge Indian reservation along with the standing rock Indian reservation is the most violent place in South Dakota... FactlolRapid City is listed currently listed as the most dangerous place to live in South Dakota. Not 20 years ago, not 40 years ago. Today. It boasts a higher homicide gun rate than NYC does. It's even slightly higher than Detroit. And it's NOT on the Indian Reservation. It's primarily white. And it's not far from where Chief Rustic lives. Now, I respect being proud of where one lives but first you must have something other than Mount Rushmore, a Chicken dancing on a hot plate and a few other carny tricks before you go off like he does. The fact remains, Rapid City is, was and probably always will be a very dangerous place. Why? It has a higher unemployment rate than the national average. And it has a lower pay scale than most places. Yes, there are some Rich that live there that skew the average. But the majority will be low scale. And it's got one really crooked cop shop to boot. One cop even tried to steal my Stetson one night but didn't get away with it. He was carrying. He must of thought I was either the craziest or the baddest dude that ever graced the Earth. I'll never tell which. I kept him in the club, spoke quietly and had him send one of his cop buddies out to his car for my stetson. In those days, a 300 dollar hat was hard to come by. You should have seen it. Things got real quiet. The Bass Player (Me a protected Species) was telling a cop (another protected species) to return my property. The Bikers that usually stuck up for the Band stayed out of it and his Cop Buddies just sat there quietly. But he returned the hat after his buddy went out and retrieved it. You see, the music stopped until I got my damned hat back. Right after that, the Cops all left and the party went on without them.
There are seven Indian reservations in South Dakota, you don’t think this skews the numbers?
Indians dominate the number of inmates in the Lawrence County Jail… Rapid City
pine ridge is within walking distance of Rapid City in the summer, You see Indians all the time walking down Highway 44.
Pine Ridge Reservation
STATISTICAL DATA
Despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Indigenous people are struggling hard to overcome decades of neglect, discrimination and forced destruction of their traditional cultures to promote a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency.
BRIEF STATISTICS
* 97% of of the population at Pine Ridge Reservation live below federal poverty line.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* Death due to Heart Disease: Twice the national average.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.
* At least 60% of the homes are severely substandard, without water, electricity, adequate insulation, and sewage systems.
* Recent reports state the average life expectancy is 45 years old while others state that it is 48 years old for men and 52 years old for women. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for any community in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
INTRODUCTORY
Hidden away, dotted throughout the landscape of America, are the Reservations of the Indigenous People of our land. Mostly unknown or forgotten by the mainstream culture of the dominant U.S. society, the average United States resident knows little or nothing about these people other than what romanticized versions they see in movies and television or else in their nearest Reservation casino. Most assume that whatever poverty exists on a reservation is most certainly comparable to that which they might experience themselves.
And definitely, mainstream Americans are accustomed to being exposed to poverty. It has become nearly invisible due to its overwhelming presence everywhere. We drive through our cities now with a blind eye, numb to the suffering around us. Even more, we watch the televised reports of Third World countries, shake our heads and turn away, rightfully assuming that our government and our charities will help those in need all over the globe.
But the question begs: What about the foreign nations on America's own soil, within this country, a part and yet apart from mainstream society? What about the Native American Nations on America's reservations? Few mainstream Americans know anything about the people that live on these reservations and fewer still know or comprehend the unconscionable conditions present on many of them.
What many do not know is that a staggering number of residents on Native American reservations live in abject conditions rivaling, or even surpassing, that of many Third World countries.
This report chronicles just one Nation, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Yet the name and only a few details could easily be changed to describe a host of others; Dineh (Navajo), Ute Mountain Ute, Tohono O'odham, Pima, Yaqui, Ojibwa, Chippewa, the list is long.
But despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Nation after Nation of Indigenous leaders and their people are working hard to counteract decades of oppression and forced destruction of their cultures to bring their citizens back to a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency in today's world.
Below are further in depth statistics of Pine Ridge
IN DEPTH STATISTICS
* The Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian Reservation sits in Bennett, Jackson, and Shannon Counties and is located in the southwest corner of South Dakota, fifty miles east of the Wyoming border.
* The 11,000-square mile (over 2 million acres) Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation is the second-largest Native American Reservation within the United States. It is roughly the size of the State of Connecticut.
* The Reservation is divided into eight districts: Eagle Nest, Pass Creek, Wakpamni, LaCreek, Pine Ridge, White Clay, Medicine Root, Porcupine, and Wounded Knee.
* The topography of the Pine Ridge Reservation includes badlands, rolling grassland hills, dryland prairie, and areas dotted with pine trees.
* According to the 1998 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census, the Pine Ridge Reservation is home to approximately 40,000 persons, 35% of which are under the age of 16. Approximately half the residents of the Reservation are registered tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Nation.
* The population is steadily rising, despite the severe conditions on the Reservation, as more and more Oglala Lakota return home from far-away cities in order to live within their societal values, be with their families, and assist with the revitalization of their culture and their Nation.
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 per year.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* There is no industry, technology, or commercial infrastructure on the Reservation to provide employment.
* The nearest town of size (which provides some jobs for those few persons able to travel the distance) is Rapid City, South Dakota with approximately 57,000 residents. It is located approximately 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine Ridge is Denver, Colorado located about 350 miles away.
* Some figures state that the life expectancy on the Reservation is 48 years old for men and 52 for women. Other reports state that the average life expectancy on the Reservation is 45 years old. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for a community anywhere in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
* Teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150% higher than the U.S. national average for this age group.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and malnutrition are rampant.
* The rate of diabetes on the Reservation is reported to be 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Recent reports indicate that almost 50% of the adults on the Reservation over the age of 40 have diabetes. Over 37% of population is diabetic.
* As a result of the high rate of diabetes on the Reservation, diabetic-related blindness, amputations, and kidney failure are common.
* The tuberculosis rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Each winter, Reservation Elders are found dead from hypothermia (freezing).
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are infested with Black Mold, Stachybotrys. This infestation causes an often-fatal condition with infants, children, elderly, those with damaged immune systems, and those with lung and pulmonary conditions at the highest risk. Exposure to this mold can cause hemorrhaging of the lungs and brain as well as cancer.
* Many Reservation residents live without health care due to vast travel distances involved in accessing that care. Additional factors include under-funded, under-staffed medical facilities and outdated or non-existent medical equipment. There is little hope for increased funding for Indian health care.
* Preventive healthcare programs are rare.
* In most of the treaties between the U.S. Government and Indian Nations, the U.S. government agreed to provide adequate medical care for Indians in return for vast quantities of land. The Indian Health Services (IHS) was set up to administer the health care for Indians under these treaties and receives an appropriation each year to fund Indian health care. Unfortunately, the appropriation is very small compared to the need. The IHS is understaffed and ill-equipped and can't possibly address the needs of Indian communities. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
* School drop-out rate is over 70%.
* According to a Bureau of Indian Affairs report, the Pine Ridge Reservation schools are in the bottom 10% of school funding by U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
* Teacher turnover is 800% that of the U.S. national average
* The small Tribal Housing Authority homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are so overcrowded and scarce that many homeless families often use tents or cars for shelter. Many families live in shacks, old trailers, or dilapidated mobile homes.
* There is a large homeless population on the Reservation, but most families never turn away a relative no matter how distant the blood relation. Consequently, many homes have large numbers of people living in them.
* There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (a home which may only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.
* 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.
* Over 33% of the Reservation homes lack basic water and sewage systems as well as electricity.
* Many residents must carry (often contaminated) water from the local rivers daily for their personal needs.
* 39% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation have no electricity.
* 59% of the Reservation homes are substandard.
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation need to be burned to the ground and replaced with new housing due to infestation of the potentially-fatal Black Mold, Stachybotrys. There is no insurance or government program to assist families in replacing their homes.
* Some Reservation families are forced to sleep on dirt floors.
* Many Reservation homes lack adequate insulation. Even more homes lack central heating.
* Without basic insulation or central heating in their homes, many residents on the Pine Ridge Reservation use their ovens to heat their homes.
* Many Reservation homes lack stoves, refrigerators, beds, and/or basic furniture.
* Most Reservation families live in rural and often isolated areas.
* The largest town on the Reservation is the town of Pine Ridge which has a population of approximately 5,720 people and is the administrative center for the Reservation.
* There are few improved roads on the Reservation and many of the homes are inaccessible during times of heavy snow or rain.
* Weather is extreme on the Reservation. Severe winds are always a factor. Traditionally, summer temperatures reach well over 110*F and winters bring bitter cold with temperatures that can reach -50*F below zero or worse. Flooding, tornados, or wildfires are always a risk.
* Many of the wells and much of the water and land on the Reservation is contaminated with pesticides and other poisons from farming, mining, open dumps, and commercial and governmental mining operations outside the Reservation. A further source of contamination is buried ordnance and hazardous materials from closed U.S. military bombing ranges on the Reservation.
* The Pine Ridge Reservation still has no banks, motels, discount stores, or movie theaters. It has only one grocery store of any moderate size and it is located in the town of Pine Ridge on the Reservation.
* Several of the banks and lending institutions nearest to the Reservation were recently targeted for investigation of fraudulent or predatory lending practices, with the citizens of the Pine Ridge Reservation as their victims.
* There are no public libraries except one at the Oglala Lakota College of the reservation.
* There is no public transportation available on the Reservation.
* Ownership of operable automobiles by residents of the Reservation is highly limited.
* Predominate form of travel for all ages on the Reservation is walking or hitchhiking.
* There is one very small airport on the Reservation servicing both the Pine Ridge Reservation and Shannon County. It's longest, paved runway extends 4,969 feet. There are no commercial flights available.
* There is one radio station on the Pine Ridge Reservation. KILI 90.1FM is located near the town of Porcupine on the Reservation.
* Alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on the Reservation.
* The death rate from alcohol-related problems on the Reservation is 300% higher than the remaining US population.
* The Oglala Lakota Nation has prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation since the early 1970's. However, the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (which sits 400 yards off the Reservation border in a contested "buffer" zone) has approximately 14 residents and four liquor stores which sell over 4.1 million cans of beer each year resulting in a $3million annual trade. Unlike other Nebraska communities, Whiteclay exists only to sell liquor and make money. It has no schools, no churches, no civic organizations, no parks, no benches, no public bathrooms, no fire service and no law enforcement. Tribal officials have repeatedly pleaded with the State of Nebraska to close these liquor stores or enforce the State laws regulating liquor stores but have been consistently refused.
* Scientific studies show that the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer which begins underneath the Pine Ridge Reservation is predicted to run dry within the next thirty years, possibly as early as the year 2005, due to commercial interest use and dryland farming in numerous states south of the Reservation. This critical North American underground water resource is not renewable at anything near the present consumption rate. The recent years of drought have simply accelerated the problem.
* Scientific studies show that much of the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer has been contaminated with farming pesticides and commercial, factory, mining, and industrial contaminants in the States of South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
* The Tribal nations are considered to have sovereign governmental status and have a government to government relationship with the United States. The Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribal government operates under a constitution consistent with the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and approved by the Tribal membership and Tribal Council of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. The Tribe is governed by an elected body consisting of a 5 member Executive Committee and an 18 member Tribal Council, all of whom serve a four year term.
(Compiled from recent political, government, and tribal publications)
If you wish a list of the resources and publications used for this report, please contact: Stephanie M. Schwartz at [email protected]
This has nothing to do with the Criminal Rate in current day Rapid City, SD. You are just throwing more Bullshit into the ball game.
What it does say is that it's more important than ever to develop alternate energy resources. Are you aware that there are some new methods to extract water from air using Electric Power? It's currently being developed in villages in Africa where there is NO flowing or standing water. Every cubic meter of air has some moisture in it. So we can have alternate Electricity and Alternate Water in the very near future. But if you had your way, nothing would be done. Glad you don't get your way.
You have obviously not been here for a very long time, Why don’t you drive up to Rapid City go to the Lawrence County Jail it’s right in downtown Rapid City. Go to the front desk and find out how many Indians are in that jail. I guarantee They make up the vast majority. Every year several of them drown in rapid Creek right downtown Rapid City, Because of public drunkenness.
Like I said North rapid is considered part of Pine Ridge Indian reservation. It is truly an embarrassment to us Indians who have successfully adapted. Did you know there’s an 80% domestic abuse rate... at least on the reservations?
Life on the reservations is only getting worse… Political correctness/socialism make sure of it.
People need to take care of their own shit… That is the first step
Do the same in Cortez Colorado with the Navajo. Murder Rate ZERO. Even a bigger hard luck story than the Sioux.
LolLolhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...states-use-the-most-renewable-energy?slide=11If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, like I have always said I am an all of the above type of guy.
Fossil fuels are here to stay here in the northern plains for the foreseeable future, Large scale renewable energy is not viable/available here.
People using renewable is on a personal level/small scale is working just fine here.
Every state should be allowed to do their own thing, in all things.
Too bad the federal government pretty much disregards to the 10th amendment, Fucking politically correct control freaks.
After all one size never fits all, never has... lol
South Dakota and most of the Red States fight it with a vengence. Meanwhile, Blue Western States embrace alternate energy while still out producing your precious South Dakota for Coal and Oil. Our Solar and Wind, alone, has enough power to power your entire state along with Wyoming by itself. 20% of our energy comes from Solar and Wind. And we are behind New Mexico.
One Red State (leaning Purple these days) is Texas and they have a couple of Energy Zero towns and cities. And those Towns and Cities are ran by Republicans. For every electric or gas unit they take from the system, they put the equivalent back in in electric power in their grid. What you are condemning California for doing, Texas is already doing and has been doing for years in some Towns and Cities. It's not a Red V Blue thing, it's a "What kind of life do we leave your Grand Kids".
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The northern plains needs fossil fuels, That’s not changing anytime soon.
Like I said I am an all of the above type of guy. But you need to look at the reality, Not the politically correct fantasy...
That fantasy is NOW. FACT. Your URL just helped to prove it. Let's look at the states that are on that list.
10. Nebraska. Renewable Energy output 19% This is a strongly Red State.
9. New Hampshire. Renewable Energy output 19%. This is a strong Blue State
8. Vermont. Renewable Energy output of 29%. Another strong blue state
7. Idaho. Renewable Energy output of 27%. Another strong Red State.
6. Iowa. Renewable Energy output of 29%. This is a Swing State
5. Montana. Renewable Energy output of 31%. Strong Red State
4. South Dakota. Renewable Energy output 35%. Strong Red State
3. Main. Renewable Energy output of 36%. Strong Blue State
2. Washington. Renewable Energy of 44%. Strong Blue State
1. Oregon. Renewable Energy of 45%. Strong Blue State.
I listed if they were a blue or a red state but it turns out it's not a Partisan thing. And some made the list without a drop of Hydro Electric Power as well. It turns out that your South Dakota is higher on the renewable resource than my Colorado and you want to ding us for taking measures to clean our state up. California didn't make the list either.
One thing that was in every one of these was that lack of population with the exception of Washington and Oregon. They both have Major Cities. And yet lead the pack. And you are constantly deriding them for their renewable energy programs. Deride away. Come to find out, South Dakota is an exporter of alternate energy all along. You don't burn that coal you are digging up. You ship it to places that are dumb enough to burn it and have for years. Colorado has done the same until the last few years. But we have a higher population and our numbers will be lower for renewable energy at 20% versus 35% for South Dakota. But we are one of the higher Western States for population and require more energy. But by 2035 we will surpass South Dakota. It won't be easy but it's coming. If we use your way of thinking, we'll just stay the same or withdraw. When we have ozone in the air in Denver to such a degree that it can kill small children we had damned well better be doing something about that. BTW, that Ozone comes for Gas Powered Vehicles. Smog ain't the only thing they put. You just can't see or smell Ozone.
You found a list of the States Use the Most Renewable Energy but no one seems to show the opposite. If you can find that It would make a neat thing to discuss in another message line.
BTW, over 30% of that renewable energy is coming from Wind Farms in South Dakota. And more Wind Farms are on the way. Like I said, South Dakota is a windy place. It has to be. It has tall tellers of tales like you there and there is such a waste in wasting that energy.
Clean Grid Alliance | A Wind Energy Boom Is Coming To South Dakota
It appears that Solar isn't being used yet. And don't tell me it's because that you are so far north. Iowa disagrees. And Michigan is even more northern than you are and they are starting to push Solar. Like South Dakota, North Dakota isn't sponsoring in large scale solar either like states to the east of it are. Then again, North Dakota also gets a large percentage of their energy from wind. I guess that's from all those visiting Sodaks.
Imagine that. You have no idea what's happening in your very own State. That hovel must be pretty damned deep, dark and cold you live in.
We’ve had 30% of our power supplied by renewables for very long time now, and it’s probably not gonna get much over that.
Because the wind is inconsistent here, they can’t make the bearings stand up for very long. Most of the wind turbines have to be replaced in a short time. Because they lose up to 30% of their efficiency in the first year alone.
Fossil fuel still dominates the northern plains and will for the foreseeable future.
Like I said all along i an all of the above type of guy, But the reality is fossil fuels supply the power up here.
Solar is farther along than wind, less moving parts. The solar is only feasible on small scale up here which is fine as the way it should be. Private choice.
Either way they still depend on batteries… Batteries aren’t only more toxic than any fossil fuels, They have to be made in Canada because the environmental reasons(that’s a head scratcher lol) apparently and are extremely expensive.
We have an unlimited supply of oil/Coal and natural gas in the northern plains... Might as well use it...just as they are doing.
First of all, most electricity for SD comes from Hydro Power. Next, comes Solar. Coal is all the way down to 20%. All in all, Petroleum makes up the lion share for transportation but that will change. Just like Wind bit heavily into coal.
Hydro Power has been around for decades. Most projects like that were done under Nixon and back. The initial cost is outrageous but the hundred years of service makes it worth it. Like the Wind Turbine, the Hydro Turbine has to have it's bearings and more replaced on a maintenance schedule. Hydo Electic ain't free once it's built but it ends up, in the long run, being the cheapest over a 100 year time
Wind power is cheap although you do have to replentish your sites from time to time. You ding the bearings but give Hydro Power a free ride. Yet Wind is the cheapest to install, maintain and gives you the highest output for the dollar. And, I heard your argument before. Your Orange Buddy used it. Energy is cumulative. Batteries are rarely used in commercial Wind Generating. When the wind blows, you get lots of power. When it doesn't, you don't. But you still have the other types that put out less power 24/7 that will pick it up when the wind isn't blowing. You don't need to use a battery to use Commercial Wind or even Private wind. When it's outputting, it goes into the grid and the other sources can idle back to take the load off of them. Please stop taking Energy advice from Trump. On Energy, he's an idjit. And you can also set up a wind farm almost anywhere the wind blows and you have a decent power grid available. But they do try and not make it a friggin eyesore. They don't always accomplish that.
Coal used to be over half for SD like it once was for Colorado. But it's just too messy. Like SD and Wyoming, Colorado is a Coal Exporter. If the other areas are dumb enough to use the crap, why not make money off the idjits. Someone else will anyway.
You do realize the pine ridge Indian reservation is walking distance from Rapid City? Highway 44 constantly has people walking it.The pine ridge Indian reservation along with the standing rock Indian reservation is the most violent place in South Dakota... FactlolThere are seven Indian reservations in South Dakota, you don’t think this skews the numbers?
Indians dominate the number of inmates in the Lawrence County Jail… Rapid City
pine ridge is within walking distance of Rapid City in the summer, You see Indians all the time walking down Highway 44.
Pine Ridge Reservation
STATISTICAL DATA
Despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Indigenous people are struggling hard to overcome decades of neglect, discrimination and forced destruction of their traditional cultures to promote a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency.
BRIEF STATISTICS
* 97% of of the population at Pine Ridge Reservation live below federal poverty line.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* Death due to Heart Disease: Twice the national average.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.
* At least 60% of the homes are severely substandard, without water, electricity, adequate insulation, and sewage systems.
* Recent reports state the average life expectancy is 45 years old while others state that it is 48 years old for men and 52 years old for women. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for any community in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
INTRODUCTORY
Hidden away, dotted throughout the landscape of America, are the Reservations of the Indigenous People of our land. Mostly unknown or forgotten by the mainstream culture of the dominant U.S. society, the average United States resident knows little or nothing about these people other than what romanticized versions they see in movies and television or else in their nearest Reservation casino. Most assume that whatever poverty exists on a reservation is most certainly comparable to that which they might experience themselves.
And definitely, mainstream Americans are accustomed to being exposed to poverty. It has become nearly invisible due to its overwhelming presence everywhere. We drive through our cities now with a blind eye, numb to the suffering around us. Even more, we watch the televised reports of Third World countries, shake our heads and turn away, rightfully assuming that our government and our charities will help those in need all over the globe.
But the question begs: What about the foreign nations on America's own soil, within this country, a part and yet apart from mainstream society? What about the Native American Nations on America's reservations? Few mainstream Americans know anything about the people that live on these reservations and fewer still know or comprehend the unconscionable conditions present on many of them.
What many do not know is that a staggering number of residents on Native American reservations live in abject conditions rivaling, or even surpassing, that of many Third World countries.
This report chronicles just one Nation, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Yet the name and only a few details could easily be changed to describe a host of others; Dineh (Navajo), Ute Mountain Ute, Tohono O'odham, Pima, Yaqui, Ojibwa, Chippewa, the list is long.
But despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Nation after Nation of Indigenous leaders and their people are working hard to counteract decades of oppression and forced destruction of their cultures to bring their citizens back to a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency in today's world.
Below are further in depth statistics of Pine Ridge
IN DEPTH STATISTICS
* The Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian Reservation sits in Bennett, Jackson, and Shannon Counties and is located in the southwest corner of South Dakota, fifty miles east of the Wyoming border.
* The 11,000-square mile (over 2 million acres) Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation is the second-largest Native American Reservation within the United States. It is roughly the size of the State of Connecticut.
* The Reservation is divided into eight districts: Eagle Nest, Pass Creek, Wakpamni, LaCreek, Pine Ridge, White Clay, Medicine Root, Porcupine, and Wounded Knee.
* The topography of the Pine Ridge Reservation includes badlands, rolling grassland hills, dryland prairie, and areas dotted with pine trees.
* According to the 1998 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census, the Pine Ridge Reservation is home to approximately 40,000 persons, 35% of which are under the age of 16. Approximately half the residents of the Reservation are registered tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Nation.
* The population is steadily rising, despite the severe conditions on the Reservation, as more and more Oglala Lakota return home from far-away cities in order to live within their societal values, be with their families, and assist with the revitalization of their culture and their Nation.
* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 per year.
* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.
* There is no industry, technology, or commercial infrastructure on the Reservation to provide employment.
* The nearest town of size (which provides some jobs for those few persons able to travel the distance) is Rapid City, South Dakota with approximately 57,000 residents. It is located approximately 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine Ridge is Denver, Colorado located about 350 miles away.
* Some figures state that the life expectancy on the Reservation is 48 years old for men and 52 for women. Other reports state that the average life expectancy on the Reservation is 45 years old. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for a community anywhere in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.
* Teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150% higher than the U.S. national average for this age group.
* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
* More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and malnutrition are rampant.
* The rate of diabetes on the Reservation is reported to be 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Recent reports indicate that almost 50% of the adults on the Reservation over the age of 40 have diabetes. Over 37% of population is diabetic.
* As a result of the high rate of diabetes on the Reservation, diabetic-related blindness, amputations, and kidney failure are common.
* The tuberculosis rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 800% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S. national average.
* Each winter, Reservation Elders are found dead from hypothermia (freezing).
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are infested with Black Mold, Stachybotrys. This infestation causes an often-fatal condition with infants, children, elderly, those with damaged immune systems, and those with lung and pulmonary conditions at the highest risk. Exposure to this mold can cause hemorrhaging of the lungs and brain as well as cancer.
* Many Reservation residents live without health care due to vast travel distances involved in accessing that care. Additional factors include under-funded, under-staffed medical facilities and outdated or non-existent medical equipment. There is little hope for increased funding for Indian health care.
* Preventive healthcare programs are rare.
* In most of the treaties between the U.S. Government and Indian Nations, the U.S. government agreed to provide adequate medical care for Indians in return for vast quantities of land. The Indian Health Services (IHS) was set up to administer the health care for Indians under these treaties and receives an appropriation each year to fund Indian health care. Unfortunately, the appropriation is very small compared to the need. The IHS is understaffed and ill-equipped and can't possibly address the needs of Indian communities. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
* School drop-out rate is over 70%.
* According to a Bureau of Indian Affairs report, the Pine Ridge Reservation schools are in the bottom 10% of school funding by U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
* Teacher turnover is 800% that of the U.S. national average
* The small Tribal Housing Authority homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are so overcrowded and scarce that many homeless families often use tents or cars for shelter. Many families live in shacks, old trailers, or dilapidated mobile homes.
* There is a large homeless population on the Reservation, but most families never turn away a relative no matter how distant the blood relation. Consequently, many homes have large numbers of people living in them.
* There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (a home which may only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.
* 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.
* Over 33% of the Reservation homes lack basic water and sewage systems as well as electricity.
* Many residents must carry (often contaminated) water from the local rivers daily for their personal needs.
* 39% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation have no electricity.
* 59% of the Reservation homes are substandard.
* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation need to be burned to the ground and replaced with new housing due to infestation of the potentially-fatal Black Mold, Stachybotrys. There is no insurance or government program to assist families in replacing their homes.
* Some Reservation families are forced to sleep on dirt floors.
* Many Reservation homes lack adequate insulation. Even more homes lack central heating.
* Without basic insulation or central heating in their homes, many residents on the Pine Ridge Reservation use their ovens to heat their homes.
* Many Reservation homes lack stoves, refrigerators, beds, and/or basic furniture.
* Most Reservation families live in rural and often isolated areas.
* The largest town on the Reservation is the town of Pine Ridge which has a population of approximately 5,720 people and is the administrative center for the Reservation.
* There are few improved roads on the Reservation and many of the homes are inaccessible during times of heavy snow or rain.
* Weather is extreme on the Reservation. Severe winds are always a factor. Traditionally, summer temperatures reach well over 110*F and winters bring bitter cold with temperatures that can reach -50*F below zero or worse. Flooding, tornados, or wildfires are always a risk.
* Many of the wells and much of the water and land on the Reservation is contaminated with pesticides and other poisons from farming, mining, open dumps, and commercial and governmental mining operations outside the Reservation. A further source of contamination is buried ordnance and hazardous materials from closed U.S. military bombing ranges on the Reservation.
* The Pine Ridge Reservation still has no banks, motels, discount stores, or movie theaters. It has only one grocery store of any moderate size and it is located in the town of Pine Ridge on the Reservation.
* Several of the banks and lending institutions nearest to the Reservation were recently targeted for investigation of fraudulent or predatory lending practices, with the citizens of the Pine Ridge Reservation as their victims.
* There are no public libraries except one at the Oglala Lakota College of the reservation.
* There is no public transportation available on the Reservation.
* Ownership of operable automobiles by residents of the Reservation is highly limited.
* Predominate form of travel for all ages on the Reservation is walking or hitchhiking.
* There is one very small airport on the Reservation servicing both the Pine Ridge Reservation and Shannon County. It's longest, paved runway extends 4,969 feet. There are no commercial flights available.
* There is one radio station on the Pine Ridge Reservation. KILI 90.1FM is located near the town of Porcupine on the Reservation.
* Alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on the Reservation.
* The death rate from alcohol-related problems on the Reservation is 300% higher than the remaining US population.
* The Oglala Lakota Nation has prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation since the early 1970's. However, the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (which sits 400 yards off the Reservation border in a contested "buffer" zone) has approximately 14 residents and four liquor stores which sell over 4.1 million cans of beer each year resulting in a $3million annual trade. Unlike other Nebraska communities, Whiteclay exists only to sell liquor and make money. It has no schools, no churches, no civic organizations, no parks, no benches, no public bathrooms, no fire service and no law enforcement. Tribal officials have repeatedly pleaded with the State of Nebraska to close these liquor stores or enforce the State laws regulating liquor stores but have been consistently refused.
* Scientific studies show that the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer which begins underneath the Pine Ridge Reservation is predicted to run dry within the next thirty years, possibly as early as the year 2005, due to commercial interest use and dryland farming in numerous states south of the Reservation. This critical North American underground water resource is not renewable at anything near the present consumption rate. The recent years of drought have simply accelerated the problem.
* Scientific studies show that much of the High Plains/Oglala Aquifer has been contaminated with farming pesticides and commercial, factory, mining, and industrial contaminants in the States of South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
* The Tribal nations are considered to have sovereign governmental status and have a government to government relationship with the United States. The Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribal government operates under a constitution consistent with the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and approved by the Tribal membership and Tribal Council of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. The Tribe is governed by an elected body consisting of a 5 member Executive Committee and an 18 member Tribal Council, all of whom serve a four year term.
(Compiled from recent political, government, and tribal publications)
If you wish a list of the resources and publications used for this report, please contact: Stephanie M. Schwartz at [email protected]
This has nothing to do with the Criminal Rate in current day Rapid City, SD. You are just throwing more Bullshit into the ball game.
What it does say is that it's more important than ever to develop alternate energy resources. Are you aware that there are some new methods to extract water from air using Electric Power? It's currently being developed in villages in Africa where there is NO flowing or standing water. Every cubic meter of air has some moisture in it. So we can have alternate Electricity and Alternate Water in the very near future. But if you had your way, nothing would be done. Glad you don't get your way.
You have obviously not been here for a very long time, Why don’t you drive up to Rapid City go to the Lawrence County Jail it’s right in downtown Rapid City. Go to the front desk and find out how many Indians are in that jail. I guarantee They make up the vast majority. Every year several of them drown in rapid Creek right downtown Rapid City, Because of public drunkenness.
Like I said North rapid is considered part of Pine Ridge Indian reservation. It is truly an embarrassment to us Indians who have successfully adapted. Did you know there’s an 80% domestic abuse rate... at least on the reservations?
Life on the reservations is only getting worse… Political correctness/socialism make sure of it.
People need to take care of their own shit… That is the first step
Do the same in Cortez Colorado with the Navajo. Murder Rate ZERO. Even a bigger hard luck story than the Sioux.
Which has no affect on the high homocide and crime rate of Rancid City. The more you bring up, the more people are not going to want to visit much less move to that area. I guess we all don't care to get murdered.
LolLolhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...states-use-the-most-renewable-energy?slide=11South Dakota and most of the Red States fight it with a vengence. Meanwhile, Blue Western States embrace alternate energy while still out producing your precious South Dakota for Coal and Oil. Our Solar and Wind, alone, has enough power to power your entire state along with Wyoming by itself. 20% of our energy comes from Solar and Wind. And we are behind New Mexico.
One Red State (leaning Purple these days) is Texas and they have a couple of Energy Zero towns and cities. And those Towns and Cities are ran by Republicans. For every electric or gas unit they take from the system, they put the equivalent back in in electric power in their grid. What you are condemning California for doing, Texas is already doing and has been doing for years in some Towns and Cities. It's not a Red V Blue thing, it's a "What kind of life do we leave your Grand Kids".
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The northern plains needs fossil fuels, That’s not changing anytime soon.
Like I said I am an all of the above type of guy. But you need to look at the reality, Not the politically correct fantasy...
That fantasy is NOW. FACT. Your URL just helped to prove it. Let's look at the states that are on that list.
10. Nebraska. Renewable Energy output 19% This is a strongly Red State.
9. New Hampshire. Renewable Energy output 19%. This is a strong Blue State
8. Vermont. Renewable Energy output of 29%. Another strong blue state
7. Idaho. Renewable Energy output of 27%. Another strong Red State.
6. Iowa. Renewable Energy output of 29%. This is a Swing State
5. Montana. Renewable Energy output of 31%. Strong Red State
4. South Dakota. Renewable Energy output 35%. Strong Red State
3. Main. Renewable Energy output of 36%. Strong Blue State
2. Washington. Renewable Energy of 44%. Strong Blue State
1. Oregon. Renewable Energy of 45%. Strong Blue State.
I listed if they were a blue or a red state but it turns out it's not a Partisan thing. And some made the list without a drop of Hydro Electric Power as well. It turns out that your South Dakota is higher on the renewable resource than my Colorado and you want to ding us for taking measures to clean our state up. California didn't make the list either.
One thing that was in every one of these was that lack of population with the exception of Washington and Oregon. They both have Major Cities. And yet lead the pack. And you are constantly deriding them for their renewable energy programs. Deride away. Come to find out, South Dakota is an exporter of alternate energy all along. You don't burn that coal you are digging up. You ship it to places that are dumb enough to burn it and have for years. Colorado has done the same until the last few years. But we have a higher population and our numbers will be lower for renewable energy at 20% versus 35% for South Dakota. But we are one of the higher Western States for population and require more energy. But by 2035 we will surpass South Dakota. It won't be easy but it's coming. If we use your way of thinking, we'll just stay the same or withdraw. When we have ozone in the air in Denver to such a degree that it can kill small children we had damned well better be doing something about that. BTW, that Ozone comes for Gas Powered Vehicles. Smog ain't the only thing they put. You just can't see or smell Ozone.
You found a list of the States Use the Most Renewable Energy but no one seems to show the opposite. If you can find that It would make a neat thing to discuss in another message line.
BTW, over 30% of that renewable energy is coming from Wind Farms in South Dakota. And more Wind Farms are on the way. Like I said, South Dakota is a windy place. It has to be. It has tall tellers of tales like you there and there is such a waste in wasting that energy.
Clean Grid Alliance | A Wind Energy Boom Is Coming To South Dakota
It appears that Solar isn't being used yet. And don't tell me it's because that you are so far north. Iowa disagrees. And Michigan is even more northern than you are and they are starting to push Solar. Like South Dakota, North Dakota isn't sponsoring in large scale solar either like states to the east of it are. Then again, North Dakota also gets a large percentage of their energy from wind. I guess that's from all those visiting Sodaks.
Imagine that. You have no idea what's happening in your very own State. That hovel must be pretty damned deep, dark and cold you live in.
We’ve had 30% of our power supplied by renewables for very long time now, and it’s probably not gonna get much over that.
Because the wind is inconsistent here, they can’t make the bearings stand up for very long. Most of the wind turbines have to be replaced in a short time. Because they lose up to 30% of their efficiency in the first year alone.
Fossil fuel still dominates the northern plains and will for the foreseeable future.
Like I said all along i an all of the above type of guy, But the reality is fossil fuels supply the power up here.
Solar is farther along than wind, less moving parts. The solar is only feasible on small scale up here which is fine as the way it should be. Private choice.
Either way they still depend on batteries… Batteries aren’t only more toxic than any fossil fuels, They have to be made in Canada because the environmental reasons(that’s a head scratcher lol) apparently and are extremely expensive.
We have an unlimited supply of oil/Coal and natural gas in the northern plains... Might as well use it...just as they are doing.
First of all, most electricity for SD comes from Hydro Power. Next, comes Solar. Coal is all the way down to 20%. All in all, Petroleum makes up the lion share for transportation but that will change. Just like Wind bit heavily into coal.
Hydro Power has been around for decades. Most projects like that were done under Nixon and back. The initial cost is outrageous but the hundred years of service makes it worth it. Like the Wind Turbine, the Hydro Turbine has to have it's bearings and more replaced on a maintenance schedule. Hydo Electic ain't free once it's built but it ends up, in the long run, being the cheapest over a 100 year time
Wind power is cheap although you do have to replentish your sites from time to time. You ding the bearings but give Hydro Power a free ride. Yet Wind is the cheapest to install, maintain and gives you the highest output for the dollar. And, I heard your argument before. Your Orange Buddy used it. Energy is cumulative. Batteries are rarely used in commercial Wind Generating. When the wind blows, you get lots of power. When it doesn't, you don't. But you still have the other types that put out less power 24/7 that will pick it up when the wind isn't blowing. You don't need to use a battery to use Commercial Wind or even Private wind. When it's outputting, it goes into the grid and the other sources can idle back to take the load off of them. Please stop taking Energy advice from Trump. On Energy, he's an idjit. And you can also set up a wind farm almost anywhere the wind blows and you have a decent power grid available. But they do try and not make it a friggin eyesore. They don't always accomplish that.
Coal used to be over half for SD like it once was for Colorado. But it's just too messy. Like SD and Wyoming, Colorado is a Coal Exporter. If the other areas are dumb enough to use the crap, why not make money off the idjits. Someone else will anyway.
The fact remains, Fossil fuel’s are here to stay. It’s gonna be a very long time before anything is weaned off of them.
Like I said I am all of the above type a guy, Without fossil fuels this would be a waste land up here.
There would be no jobs, no technology innovation...
You would be amazed at the number of trucks heading up Highway79 Supplying the mining and drilling industry here. Lol
You do realize the pine ridge Indian reservation is walking distance from Rapid City? Highway 44 constantly has people walking it.The pine ridge Indian reservation along with the standing rock Indian reservation is the most violent place in South Dakota... FactlolThis has nothing to do with the Criminal Rate in current day Rapid City, SD. You are just throwing more Bullshit into the ball game.
What it does say is that it's more important than ever to develop alternate energy resources. Are you aware that there are some new methods to extract water from air using Electric Power? It's currently being developed in villages in Africa where there is NO flowing or standing water. Every cubic meter of air has some moisture in it. So we can have alternate Electricity and Alternate Water in the very near future. But if you had your way, nothing would be done. Glad you don't get your way.
You have obviously not been here for a very long time, Why don’t you drive up to Rapid City go to the Lawrence County Jail it’s right in downtown Rapid City. Go to the front desk and find out how many Indians are in that jail. I guarantee They make up the vast majority. Every year several of them drown in rapid Creek right downtown Rapid City, Because of public drunkenness.
Like I said North rapid is considered part of Pine Ridge Indian reservation. It is truly an embarrassment to us Indians who have successfully adapted. Did you know there’s an 80% domestic abuse rate... at least on the reservations?
Life on the reservations is only getting worse… Political correctness/socialism make sure of it.
People need to take care of their own shit… That is the first step
Do the same in Cortez Colorado with the Navajo. Murder Rate ZERO. Even a bigger hard luck story than the Sioux.
Which has no affect on the high homocide and crime rate of Rancid City. The more you bring up, the more people are not going to want to visit much less move to that area. I guess we all don't care to get murdered.
Where do you think those Indians run to when they get in trouble in Rapid City… I’ll give you a hint the pine ridge Indian reservation which is a Third World country basically. Police can’t do a thing about it if criminals get on the Rez.
Like I said go to the Rapid City/Lawrence county jail... See for yourself what the inmate ratio is. Lol
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If that ever shows up it’s decades off fortunately... Me and my family will be long gone... we won’t live long enough to see any of that shit. LolLolLolhttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...states-use-the-most-renewable-energy?slide=11
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The northern plains needs fossil fuels, That’s not changing anytime soon.
Like I said I am an all of the above type of guy. But you need to look at the reality, Not the politically correct fantasy...
That fantasy is NOW. FACT. Your URL just helped to prove it. Let's look at the states that are on that list.
10. Nebraska. Renewable Energy output 19% This is a strongly Red State.
9. New Hampshire. Renewable Energy output 19%. This is a strong Blue State
8. Vermont. Renewable Energy output of 29%. Another strong blue state
7. Idaho. Renewable Energy output of 27%. Another strong Red State.
6. Iowa. Renewable Energy output of 29%. This is a Swing State
5. Montana. Renewable Energy output of 31%. Strong Red State
4. South Dakota. Renewable Energy output 35%. Strong Red State
3. Main. Renewable Energy output of 36%. Strong Blue State
2. Washington. Renewable Energy of 44%. Strong Blue State
1. Oregon. Renewable Energy of 45%. Strong Blue State.
I listed if they were a blue or a red state but it turns out it's not a Partisan thing. And some made the list without a drop of Hydro Electric Power as well. It turns out that your South Dakota is higher on the renewable resource than my Colorado and you want to ding us for taking measures to clean our state up. California didn't make the list either.
One thing that was in every one of these was that lack of population with the exception of Washington and Oregon. They both have Major Cities. And yet lead the pack. And you are constantly deriding them for their renewable energy programs. Deride away. Come to find out, South Dakota is an exporter of alternate energy all along. You don't burn that coal you are digging up. You ship it to places that are dumb enough to burn it and have for years. Colorado has done the same until the last few years. But we have a higher population and our numbers will be lower for renewable energy at 20% versus 35% for South Dakota. But we are one of the higher Western States for population and require more energy. But by 2035 we will surpass South Dakota. It won't be easy but it's coming. If we use your way of thinking, we'll just stay the same or withdraw. When we have ozone in the air in Denver to such a degree that it can kill small children we had damned well better be doing something about that. BTW, that Ozone comes for Gas Powered Vehicles. Smog ain't the only thing they put. You just can't see or smell Ozone.
You found a list of the States Use the Most Renewable Energy but no one seems to show the opposite. If you can find that It would make a neat thing to discuss in another message line.
BTW, over 30% of that renewable energy is coming from Wind Farms in South Dakota. And more Wind Farms are on the way. Like I said, South Dakota is a windy place. It has to be. It has tall tellers of tales like you there and there is such a waste in wasting that energy.
Clean Grid Alliance | A Wind Energy Boom Is Coming To South Dakota
It appears that Solar isn't being used yet. And don't tell me it's because that you are so far north. Iowa disagrees. And Michigan is even more northern than you are and they are starting to push Solar. Like South Dakota, North Dakota isn't sponsoring in large scale solar either like states to the east of it are. Then again, North Dakota also gets a large percentage of their energy from wind. I guess that's from all those visiting Sodaks.
Imagine that. You have no idea what's happening in your very own State. That hovel must be pretty damned deep, dark and cold you live in.
We’ve had 30% of our power supplied by renewables for very long time now, and it’s probably not gonna get much over that.
Because the wind is inconsistent here, they can’t make the bearings stand up for very long. Most of the wind turbines have to be replaced in a short time. Because they lose up to 30% of their efficiency in the first year alone.
Fossil fuel still dominates the northern plains and will for the foreseeable future.
Like I said all along i an all of the above type of guy, But the reality is fossil fuels supply the power up here.
Solar is farther along than wind, less moving parts. The solar is only feasible on small scale up here which is fine as the way it should be. Private choice.
Either way they still depend on batteries… Batteries aren’t only more toxic than any fossil fuels, They have to be made in Canada because the environmental reasons(that’s a head scratcher lol) apparently and are extremely expensive.
We have an unlimited supply of oil/Coal and natural gas in the northern plains... Might as well use it...just as they are doing.
First of all, most electricity for SD comes from Hydro Power. Next, comes Solar. Coal is all the way down to 20%. All in all, Petroleum makes up the lion share for transportation but that will change. Just like Wind bit heavily into coal.
Hydro Power has been around for decades. Most projects like that were done under Nixon and back. The initial cost is outrageous but the hundred years of service makes it worth it. Like the Wind Turbine, the Hydro Turbine has to have it's bearings and more replaced on a maintenance schedule. Hydo Electic ain't free once it's built but it ends up, in the long run, being the cheapest over a 100 year time
Wind power is cheap although you do have to replentish your sites from time to time. You ding the bearings but give Hydro Power a free ride. Yet Wind is the cheapest to install, maintain and gives you the highest output for the dollar. And, I heard your argument before. Your Orange Buddy used it. Energy is cumulative. Batteries are rarely used in commercial Wind Generating. When the wind blows, you get lots of power. When it doesn't, you don't. But you still have the other types that put out less power 24/7 that will pick it up when the wind isn't blowing. You don't need to use a battery to use Commercial Wind or even Private wind. When it's outputting, it goes into the grid and the other sources can idle back to take the load off of them. Please stop taking Energy advice from Trump. On Energy, he's an idjit. And you can also set up a wind farm almost anywhere the wind blows and you have a decent power grid available. But they do try and not make it a friggin eyesore. They don't always accomplish that.
Coal used to be over half for SD like it once was for Colorado. But it's just too messy. Like SD and Wyoming, Colorado is a Coal Exporter. If the other areas are dumb enough to use the crap, why not make money off the idjits. Someone else will anyway.
The fact remains, Fossil fuel’s are here to stay. It’s gonna be a very long time before anything is weaned off of them.
Like I said I am all of the above type a guy, Without fossil fuels this would be a waste land up here.
There would be no jobs, no technology innovation...
You would be amazed at the number of trucks heading up Highway79 Supplying the mining and drilling industry here. Lol
You are still operating like I have never been there, cupcake. And you are operating like we don't have the same thing here except many time as much. The only thing we don't allow is strip mining. That may change when Shale is in great need since that's about the only way to get it. Luckily Shale isn't in Granite (Mountain) formations so the Mountain tops here are safe.
But look for those trucks to go alternative fuels very quickly. If only for economics if nothing else. Once you get to a certain size, electrics become the most efficient. Even if it's diesel powering a generator that is powering motors on the wheels (see Trains and Ships). And look for those trucks to be automated in the very near future. Pretty soon, all those high paying jobs are going to be gone. Oh, the work will still be done just more automated. The Trucks will be controlled out of a Control Booth right down to the last inch. Imagine Electrics moving the dirty coal to be sold to idjits that think closer to what you do. But one day, those idjits are going to either wise up or poison themselves. Either way, the days of Coal are numbered unless they come up with more uses of it other than heating and electricity generation.
LolYou do realize the pine ridge Indian reservation is walking distance from Rapid City? Highway 44 constantly has people walking it.The pine ridge Indian reservation along with the standing rock Indian reservation is the most violent place in South Dakota... Factlol
You have obviously not been here for a very long time, Why don’t you drive up to Rapid City go to the Lawrence County Jail it’s right in downtown Rapid City. Go to the front desk and find out how many Indians are in that jail. I guarantee They make up the vast majority. Every year several of them drown in rapid Creek right downtown Rapid City, Because of public drunkenness.
Like I said North rapid is considered part of Pine Ridge Indian reservation. It is truly an embarrassment to us Indians who have successfully adapted. Did you know there’s an 80% domestic abuse rate... at least on the reservations?
Life on the reservations is only getting worse… Political correctness/socialism make sure of it.
People need to take care of their own shit… That is the first step
Do the same in Cortez Colorado with the Navajo. Murder Rate ZERO. Even a bigger hard luck story than the Sioux.
Which has no affect on the high homocide and crime rate of Rancid City. The more you bring up, the more people are not going to want to visit much less move to that area. I guess we all don't care to get murdered.
Where do you think those Indians run to when they get in trouble in Rapid City… I’ll give you a hint the pine ridge Indian reservation which is a Third World country basically. Police can’t do a thing about it if criminals get on the Rez.
Like I said go to the Rapid City/Lawrence county jail... See for yourself what the inmate ratio is. Lol
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Wow, an over 80 mile jaunt by a drunken Indian. You have much heartier Indians than we have here. Ours have trouble making it halfway across the road when intoxicated. And that jaunt will take you through the Black Hills which isn't exactly the easiest trek even sober for 80 miles. You keep hoping that someone won't notice that you are full of crap and trying to pull a whole series of Trump reasoning. You know, no one will check your BS. it's called Fact Check, cupcake.
1) Coal jobs are not coming back. Automation and mining technologies have outpaced the old fashioned idea of an elevator crowded with miners descending into a deep,shaft mine. You might as well worry about whaler's jobs in New Bedford.You are a liar!
There is no such thing as clean coal. If you ever find any, you might have something to talk about.
The new coal fired plants have near zero particulate emissions. Your ilk just want to kill an industry that allows people to be self sufficient and in no need of government intrusion.
Wrong on all three counts...1) Coal jobs are not coming back. Automation and mining technologies have outpaced the old fashioned idea of an elevator crowded with miners descending into a deep,shaft mine. You might as well worry about whaler's jobs in New Bedford.You are a liar!
There is no such thing as clean coal. If you ever find any, you might have something to talk about.
The new coal fired plants have near zero particulate emissions. Your ilk just want to kill an industry that allows people to be self sufficient and in no need of government intrusion.
2) "Clean coal" is a marketing term for something that just does not exist. I know it refers to technology to mitigate the vast amounts of pollution from burning coal. But power plants, HERE IN COAL COUNTRY, are closing due to the cost of retrofitting plants with scrubbers. I have seen power plants (at Shippingport, PA, Stratton, Ohio and down river in Beilliant, Ohio close down while natural gas plants open up.
3) Coal is expensive. Expensive to mine, expensive to,process, expensive to remediate. Natural gas is cheaper, easier to transport and abundant.
LolYou do realize the pine ridge Indian reservation is walking distance from Rapid City? Highway 44 constantly has people walking it.The pine ridge Indian reservation along with the standing rock Indian reservation is the most violent place in South Dakota... FactDo the same in Cortez Colorado with the Navajo. Murder Rate ZERO. Even a bigger hard luck story than the Sioux.
Which has no affect on the high homocide and crime rate of Rancid City. The more you bring up, the more people are not going to want to visit much less move to that area. I guess we all don't care to get murdered.
Where do you think those Indians run to when they get in trouble in Rapid City… I’ll give you a hint the pine ridge Indian reservation which is a Third World country basically. Police can’t do a thing about it if criminals get on the Rez.
Like I said go to the Rapid City/Lawrence county jail... See for yourself what the inmate ratio is. Lol
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Wow, an over 80 mile jaunt by a drunken Indian. You have much heartier Indians than we have here. Ours have trouble making it halfway across the road when intoxicated. And that jaunt will take you through the Black Hills which isn't exactly the easiest trek even sober for 80 miles. You keep hoping that someone won't notice that you are full of crap and trying to pull a whole series of Trump reasoning. You know, no one will check your BS. it's called Fact Check, cupcake.
Drive up here to South Dakota, When you get to Rapid City go east out on highway44 towards the airport, that is just south of Interstate 90, Box Elder and Ellsworth. I guarantee you will see Indians walking Highway 44 because it’s the only way they can get to Rapid City from the reservation generally.
Actually Rapid City is on the east on the edge of the Black Hills and west of Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Do you really know the area?... because it does not look like it… LOL
Wrong on all three counts...1) Coal jobs are not coming back. Automation and mining technologies have outpaced the old fashioned idea of an elevator crowded with miners descending into a deep,shaft mine. You might as well worry about whaler's jobs in New Bedford.You are a liar!
There is no such thing as clean coal. If you ever find any, you might have something to talk about.
The new coal fired plants have near zero particulate emissions. Your ilk just want to kill an industry that allows people to be self sufficient and in no need of government intrusion.
2) "Clean coal" is a marketing term for something that just does not exist. I know it refers to technology to mitigate the vast amounts of pollution from burning coal. But power plants, HERE IN COAL COUNTRY, are closing due to the cost of retrofitting plants with scrubbers. I have seen power plants (at Shippingport, PA, Stratton, Ohio and down river in Beilliant, Ohio close down while natural gas plants open up.
3) Coal is expensive. Expensive to mine, expensive to,process, expensive to remediate. Natural gas is cheaper, easier to transport and abundant.
You obviously dont live or work in mining. All you have are left wing talking points and not one of them is true..
Not in the northern plainsActually it depends on the geography more than anything, up here in the northern plains. Coal still dominates natural gas gaining.There is no such thing as clean coal, and there are no clean coal plants, despite what you might want to call them.
Proving you are ignorant of the FACTS. A common trait among Progressives.
Coal pollution mitigation
Main article: Coal pollution mitigation
See also: Clean coal technology
"Clean" coal technology usually addresses atmospheric problems resulting from burning coal. Historically, the primary focus was on SO2 and NOx, the most important gases which caused acid rain; and particulates which cause visible air pollution, illness and premature deaths. SO2 can be removed by flue-gas desulfurization and NO2 by selective catalytic reduction (SCR). Particulates can be removed with electrostatic precipitators. Although perhaps less efficient wet scrubbers can remove both gases and particulates. And mercury emissions can be reduced up to 95%.[133] However capturing carbon dioxide emissions is generally not economically viable.
Coal - Wikipedia
Yes, they can remove some of the pollutants, but what is left is causing more harm than it is worth. You can't point to any specific example of coal usage that isn't harmful to our environment. Much cleaner natural gas prices have made coal the horse and buggy of energy sources.
Fossil fuels are here to stay for the foreseeable future... fact
Yes, we will be using oil products for quite a while longer, but coal is dead.
