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have an on-ramp for Montana oil developers, would eventually carry crude oil to refineries in southern Texas.
• The board also gave the backers of the Montana-Alberta Tie Line some final easements needed across state land in north-central Montana to complete its project. The company told the board that it could be done in the first half of next year.
• Schweitzer lauded the project as a key component to the state's development of wind energy.
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DENR recommends approval of Powertech plan
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources is recommending conditional approval by Powertech Inc. for a ground water discharge plan connected to the company's proposed injection-well uranium mine near Edgemont.
• Powertech Uranium Corp. plans to pump groundwater into the underground ore deposits near Edgemont to dissolve the uranium. The water would be pumped to the surface, where the uranium would be extracted. The company estimates the mine would produce 1 million pounds of uranium oxide a year for 20 years.
• Petitions to intervene on the department's recommendation must be filed with the department's Ground Water Quality Program and postmarked by Jan. 18. If petitioned, a hearing on the department's recommendation will be heard before the state Water Management Board sometime early in 2013.
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Rock blasting set on drought-plagued Miss. River
• ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Barge traffic along a key stretch of Mississippi River is about to be restricted as crews prepare to begin blasting large rock formations that have threatened shipping on the drought-plagued waterway.
• The Army Corps of Engineers says contractors will undertake urgent demolition of the submerged granite pinnacles near Thebes, Ill., as early as Tuesday. That means that portion of the river south of St. Louis then will be closed to shipping for all but eight hours each day.
• Months of drought have left water levels up to 20 feet below normal along a 180-mile stretch of the river from St. Louis to Cairo, Ill. The problem worsened when the corps recently cut the outflow from the Missouri River, meaning far less water from the Missouri flowing into the Mississippi.
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