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Dakota Rural Action has been a champion on renewable energy, specifically wind energy, in South Dakota for a number of years. We have worked:

• to inform landowners about the opportunity and dangers of wind easements being offered by a variety of wind developers;
• to improve the state's tax system to encourage wind energy development especially locally owned wind development, and
• to focus attention on the transmission problems which have slowed the development of wind energy in the state.

WIND
Dakota Rural Action has been a champion on renewable energy, specifically wind energy, in South Dakota for a number of years. We have worked:

• to inform landowners about the opportunity and dangers of wind easements being offered by a variety of wind developers;
• to improve the state's tax system to encourage wind energy development especially locally owned wind development, and
• to focus attention on the transmission problems which have slowed the development of wind energy in the state.

Coalbed Methane
DRA is currently monitoring the situation of coal bed methane (CBM) wastewater flowing from Wyoming into South Dakota via the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne Rivers.