Here's an interesting article: http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/life/commentary/10646-time-is-ripe-to-stop-fracking-at-ft-berthold-and-standing-rock
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In fact, things have been going so well that the tribal council, which five years ago was facing a $200-million debt, is now rolling in dough. Tribal Chairman “Chief Red Tipped Arrow” Tex Hall, who just lost a primary election, is rumored to be a millionaire.
The tribal council purchased an l49-passenger yacht. That is a yacht to take senators like Heidi Heidkamp and oil company executives out and about on Lake Sakakawea, which drowned their culture on the Missouri River banks. The yacht sits quietly on a dock by the casino. No fanfare today.
Ft. Berthold is the tribal epicenter of hydraulic fracking. Despite industry claims, it is a big experiment, made possible because of a perfect storm: an entire lack of federal, state or tribal regulation, as well as unlimited access to water and air into which everything is dumped.
The 2005 Energy Policy Act had something in it called the Halliburton Amendment. That amendment exempted the oil and gas industry from most major environmental laws.
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