Union County News Archives

Posted by: Todd Epp - 07/18/2009 8:41 PM Union County citizen activist Carolyn Carlson continues to ask some hard questions about the presence of human remains in the proposed Hyperion refinery site.

Posted by: Todd Epp - 07/15/2009 7:45 PM I've done some triangulation among my sources and I've come to this conclusion: Chevron will build the so called "Gorilla" refinery near Elk Point, SD .

The high court's unanimous ruling upholds a circuit judge's decision that a local resident and a group opposed to the refinery lacked legal standing to pursue their lawsuit against the county commission.

The state Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit that challenged the Union County Commission's decision to rezone land for a proposed $10 billion oil refinery in southeastern South Dakota.

A showdown in Pierre tomorrow involving the state of South Dakota, Hyperion oil and those opposed to the proposed Hyperion refinery near Elk Point.