Twenty-six private landowners are seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit over a shuttered oil pipeline that runs through the Fort Berthold Reservation in northwest North Dakota.
NEW TOWN – A group of 26 individual Indian owners of allotted trust land on the Fort Berthold Reservation has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit between
A group of 26 Native landowners on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota seek to intervene in an ongoing civil dispute between the United States and the Tesoro High Plains Pipeline, alleging that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is not adequately representing their interests in the case. The ongoing civil actions concern a pipeline initially built across the Fort Berthold Reservation in the 1950s. While the company initially secured rights of way with many of the allottees in question, as well as the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara (MHA) Tribes, most of those rights of way expired in 2013.
A group of 26 Native landowners on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota seek to intervene in an ongoing civil dispute between the United States and the Tesoro High Plains Pipeline, alleging that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is not adequately representing their interests in the case. The ongoing civil actions concern a pipeline initially built across the Fort Berthold Reservation in the 1950s. While the company initially secured rights of way with many of the allottees in question, as well as the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara (MHA) Tribes, most of those rights of way expired in 2013.
Following a serious rupture of the Keystone pipeline in Kansas this past December, the Federal government last month announced that stricter regulations were on the way, targeting Canada’s TC Energy Corp., the operator of the infamous pipeline. The rupture this past winter dumped 14,000 barrels of heavy crude, some of it into a creek, in […]