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Pumpjacks in North Dakota s Bakken oil patch extract oil from deep underground. Oil production has grown nationally in recent months to 9.3 million barrels of oil per day.
Environmental groups last year won a case that overturned oil and gas lease sales in Montana from 2017 and 2018. Now they’re following up with a lawsuit against sales from 2019 and 2020.
The new lawsuit covers nearly 60,000 acres of land rights.
A handful of advocacy groups including the Montana Environmental Information Center and the Waterkeeper Alliance are asking A Montana federal district court in Great Falls to overturn 112 different lease parcels in central and eastern Montana and North Dakota.
John McCain’s Apache Land Grab Is Finally Happening
The fight for a copper deposit beneath sacred lands shows the extent of the government’s extractive greed.
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In 2014, the late Senator John McCain quietly slid a dagger into the backside of the Arizona tribal nations he was ostensibly elected to represent. Deep in an appropriations package for military funding, McCain tacked on a rider, known as Section 3003. The rider accomplished what the Arizona Republican had been trying to do through standalone legislation since 2005 hand over 2,400 acres of sacred Apache lands to the mining company Rio Tinto, which has long eyed an area known in the English tongue as Oak Flat for the massive deposits of copper that rest miles beneath its surface. Speaking with the
A Connecticut aquarium has agreed to delay its acquisition of five beluga whales from an Ontario wildlife theme park amid a lawsuit by an animal rights group trying to stop the delivery.
A U.S. aquarium has agreed to delay its acquisition of five beluga whales from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont. for research amid a lawsuit by an animal rights group trying to stop the delivery.
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