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THURSDAY,
DECEMBER
22, 2016$1 $1
TUESDAY, AUGUST
29, 2016

Order
issued
in oil
spill
Corrective action order
says Belle Fourche
Pipeline must improve
dangerous conditions

GIVING BACK
Local children Shop with a Cop for the holidays
By Sydney Mook
The Dickinson Press

embers of the Dickinson

Police Department and
the Stark County Sheriffs
Office took a small break to help kids
purchase gifts on Wednesday night
for the annual Shop with a Cop event.
Twenty-six kids were selected to
be part of the event through various
avenues including Stark County
Social Services, Community Action
and other local entities, DPD Capt.
David Wilkie said. The kids were
each given $75 Walmart gift cards
to spend on whatever they wanted,
whether for themselves or others.
Wilkie said he enjoys helping to
organize the event and watching
the kids faces as they pick out their
favorite toy or even sometimes
something for a sibling or parent.
He said he knows it means a lot to
the families involved who may be
struggling to pay the bills much
less think about buying their kids
presents for Christmas.

SHOP: Page 3

SPILL: Page 4

Suit aims
to block
rule on
mining

LAKE: Page 3

MINING: Page 3

Photos by Sydney Mook / The Dickinson Press

LAKE PATTERSON

Park Board approves

14 payment plan for lake
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dramatic increase initially not

allowing for any increase at all.
The county then explained that it
needed there to be some increase
in order to cover the areas maintenance costs, and it settled on
the 33 percent increase over five
years.
Hoeven explained that the
bureau had appraised the land
based on oil boom prices and
failed to take into account that
the oil prices have since fallen.
The board approved the Patterson Lake Homeowners Associations proposed payment schedule as well on Wednesday, which

By Patrick Springer
Forum News Service
BISMARCK The state of
North Dakota is suing the federal government to halt a stream
protection rule that state officials say usurps their authority
to regulate surface coal mining and threatens the industrys
viability.
The
lawsuit,
filed
Tuesday,
Dec. 20 in U.S.
District Court in
Washington, D.C.,
is against the U.S.
Department of the
Interiors Office
Stenehjem
of Surface Mining
Reclamation and
Enforcement. It seeks to block
an Obama administration rule
imposed in its final days.
This is the epitome of a midnight regulation, North Dakota
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said in a statement. This
case involves a last-ditch effort
by the outgoing administration
to encroach on the clear authority granted to the state of North
Dakota and the Public Service
Commission.
For decades, the North Dakota

Local ofcers accompanied 26 children on a shopping spree for the annual Shop with a Cop
event at Walmart on Wednesday evening.

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By Amy Dalrymple
Forum News Service
BELFIELD A federal agency has ordered Belle Fourche
Pipeline to improve leak detection, remediate any pipeline in
unstable land areas and take
other steps to protect the environment following an oil spill in
a Little Missouri River tributary.
The Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
issued a corrective action order
to Belle Fourche, part of True
Companies of Wyoming, stemming from its investigation into
the spill discovered Dec. 5 by a
landowner northwest of Belfield.
Although the cause of the spill
is still under investigation, one
theory is its related to unstable
conditions in the rugged Badlands terrain. The hillside where
the pipeline break occurred is
slumping and other indications
of ground movement, which

By Ellie Potter
The Dickinson Press
The Dickinson Park Board will
increase the permit fee for residents around Lake Patterson
gradually by 33 percent over the
next five years, after the president signed Sen. John Hoevens,
R-N.D., legislation into law last
week.
These residents own their
homes but not the land they sit
on. Earlier this year the Bureau of
Reclamation was going to increase
the permit fees for homeowners living around Lake Patterson
anywhere from 90 percent to 135
percent, Hoeven said. He drew
up his legislation to prevent that

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