Tag: Native Americans

Minnesota Approves Controversial Enbridge Pipeline Rebuild

This article discusses the approval of the Enbridge pipeline.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a controversial rebuild of Line 3 of the Enbridge Energy oil pipeline Thursday, as environmental activists and Native American groups vowed to keep fighting, The Associated Press reported.

Opponents are concerned about the need for new fossil fuel infrastructure and the danger of an oil spill near vulnerable ecosystems in Minnesota, including areas where Native Americans harvest wild rice, which is sacred to the Ojibwe.

“You have just declared war on the Ojibwe!” Tania Aubid of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe stood and said when the PUC‘s decision became apparent.

Fracking Case Now Moot, Ute Indian Tribe Tells 10th Circ.

Law360, New York (January 12, 2018, 2:23 PM EST) — The Ute Indian Tribe on Thursday told the Tenth Circuit that an appeal of a lower court order striking down the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s strengthening of regulations for fracking on federal and Native American lands should be tossed, saying the case is moot because the rule at issue has been axed. Meaning the Trump Administration removed a rule that strengthened regulations governing fracking. The strengthened rule better protected people; now, it protects corporations.

 

Judge Trims Tribe’s Suit Over Okla. Fracking Approvals

Law360, New York (September 14, 2017, 8:06 PM EDT) — An Oklahoma federal judge on Thursday trimmed a slew of claims from the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma’s lawsuit alleging the federal government approved oil and gas leases and fracking permits on the tribe’s land without properly considering their environmental impacts.

https://www.law360.com/articles/964141/judge-trims-tribe-s-suit-over-okla-fracking-approvals

Tribe Fights Feds’ Bid To Toss Oklahoma Fracking Suit

Law360, New York (June 30, 2017, 3:16 PM EDT) — The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma on Thursday defended against the dismissal of its lawsuit accusing the federal government of approving oil and gas leases and fracking permits on the tribe’s land without properly considering the environmental impacts, which links that alleged failure to a recent record-breaking earthquake in the state.

https://www.law360.com/articles/940113/tribe-fights-feds-bid-to-toss-oklahoma-fracking-suit

Activists protest national forest drilling at Wayne Nat’l Forest HQ

Native-American water protectors joined dozens of Ohio activists Saturday near Nelsonville to protest a federal Bureau of Land Management plan to auction off oil and gas leases in the Wayne National Forest.

http://www.athensnews.com/news/local/activists-protest-national-forest-drilling-at-wayne-nat-l-forest/article_234a3f4c-bfcd-11e6-883c-073e6b2c601c.html

Protesters decry fracking at Ohio national forest

COLUMBUS – A national forest in Ohio has closed its offices to the public through Tuesday, the day it auctions 1,600 acres of park land for fracking, in anticipation of extended public protests.

About 50 people demonstrated against the auction at Wayne National Forest headquarters in Nelsonville on Saturday. The Center for Biological Diversity says environmentalists and Native American groups participated. Similar protests have occurred in downtown Columbus.

http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/story/news/state/2016/12/11/protesters-decry-fracking-ohio-national-forest/95304140/