Boom in Native American oil complicates Biden climate push

Boom in Native American oil complicates Biden climate push

3 years ago
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https://apnews.com/c8ff51f166d815acfd6057ca86f6808a

NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — On oil well pads carved from the wheat fields around Lake Sakakawea, hundreds of pump jacks slowly bob to extract 100 million barrels of crude annually from a reservation shared by three Native American tribes.

About half their 16,000 members live on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation atop one of the biggest U.S. oil discoveries in decades, North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation.