Tag: mining and extraction
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How Rapid City Homeowners Unwittingly Subsidized a Global Cement Giant – GCC Dacotah – for 25 Years
Rapid City SD – When a city department leaves a massive industrial footprint unmapped for a quarter-century, it’s not a clerical oversight—it’s an unrecognized tax subsidy. A deep dive into Pennington County property records reveals a glaring disparity between how local heavy infrastructure companies are taxed versus how a multi-national cement operation, GCC Dacotah, is…
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The 25-Year Blind Spot: How a 563-Acre Mining Operation -GCC Dacotah- Escaped Rapid City’s Oversight
At 7:10 on Thursday morning, most Rapid City residents were still asleep. The ones who showed up to the Planning Commission meeting came because the ground beneath their neighborhood had been shaking before dawn. What they learned—and what the city itself had only recently discovered—was that a foreign-owned cement company had been extracting minerals from…