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August 29, 2015 • Vol. IXX • No. 18 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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Keystone XL Challenges Treaty Rights
Leslie Equipment Celebrates New Facility…14
By Talli Nauman NATIVE SUN NEWS HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT EDITOR
Falls school district. The community selected the name Susan B. Anthony due to more than 200 suggestions. Susan B. Anthony started her career as a teacher but spent most of her adult life as a writer, speaker and activist, working to secure equal right for women. She spent several months in South Dakota when it became a state in 1889. She was an advocate for women’s right to vote and for their equal
PIERRE While the world waited for South Dakota’s pivotal decision on TransCanada Corp.’s application to renew its Keystone XL tar-sands crudeoil pipeline permit, tribal members capped nine days of hearings Aug. 6, with fiery statements insisting that treaty rights dictate denial. The original 2010 permit from the state’s Public Utilities Commission expired due to inaction, and the Canadian company seeks to renew it in order to build 314 miles of pipeline through South Dakota territory granted to the Great Sioux Nation by the 1851 and 1868 Treaty of Ft. Laramie. The South Dakota link is necessary to connect the Alberta, Canada tar-sands mines to the existing thousands of miles of pipeline TransCanada already built in the Keystone system network across the U.S. heartland. “The Public Utilities Commission does not have authority to make decisions regarding the water resources which clearly will be affected by the TransCanada Keystone XL,” said hearing intervener Elizabeth Lone Eagle. “You have no other option than to deny,” she said in her closing statement. Quoting her father, Rosebud Sioux tribal member John Paul Clifford, she said, “You have no jurisdic-
see SCHOOL page 40
see KEYSTONE page 62
The new school is being constructed next door to the nearly 100-year-old Mark Twain Elementary, which was torn down.
Bobcat Company, Doosan Expand Headquarters…74
Elementary School to Honor, Continue Namesake’s Legacy By Dorinda Anderson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Alex Lyon & Son Hosts Auction in Racine…98
Table of Contents ............4 Underground Utility, Trenchers, Trench Boxes & Utilities Section ....41-47 Snow & Ice Section ..55-59 Paving Section ..........75-87 Business Calendar ........88 Auction Section ......92-101 Advertisers Index ........102
Elementary students in Sioux Falls, S.D., who formerly attended Longfellow and Mark Twain Elementary schools, can look forward to attending a new school this fall. Construction of Susan B. Anthony Elementary School is on time and will be open for the new school year, said Darrel Jones, construction supervisor of the Sioux
ASA Files Brief in Major Insurance Court Case The American Subcontractors Association, ASA of Texas, and other key construction industry organizations on July 31 filed an amici curiae brief in another major construction insurance coverage case that has percolated through the court system. The case involves the incorporation of a defective product into a
refinery, but has widespread implications for contractors and subcontractors as to coverage for defective construction and installation of particular parts, products and equipment into construction projects. ASA, ASA of Texas, the Associated General Contractors of America, Texas Building
Branch — AGC and ABC of Texas filed the brief in support of appellant U.S. Metals Inc., in U.S. Metals Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Group, 2014 WL 465892 (5th Cir. Sept. 19, 2014). “Whether AGC, TBB — AGC, ABC of Texas and ASA members can depend on their commercial general liability
insurance policies for coverage for the many risks they face is a matter of continuing and urgent interest to them,” Patrick J. Wielinski and René R. Pinson of Cokinos, Bosien & Young, Irving, Texas, wrote in the brief. In the underlying case, U.S. Metals, the insured, contracted to see ASA page 70