Valley County News

Mark Pippin, left and Jessie Korman study Korman's Tahoe, which fell into a hole when a culvert on Larb Creek Road collapsed under it Saturday morning.

The Refuse Board met Tuesday in the District Courtroom and voted to discontinue talks with Dyad Environmental about taking their cement cubes of oilfield waste.

Prospects of radioactive oil field waste finding its way into a Glasgow public landfill may have dimmed last week after a series of revelations regarding legal and regulatory problems with the Idaho company that proposed the arrangement.

Since the disclosure March 1 of Dyad Environmental, LLC's proposal to store radioactive Bakken oil field waste at the Valley County Landfill, area residents have been curious about the company, its history and its principal officers.

A proposed management plan for a vast area of federal land along Montana's Hi-Line, much of it prairie, proposes new protections for 1.2 million acres of sage grouse habitat, including restrictions on oil and gas development and wind farms.