Boom in Native American oil complicates Biden climate push
Tribal lands now produce 3% of U.S. oil, but the money brought in may conflict with President Biden s climate change plans. Author: MATTHEW BROWN and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Published: 1:11 PM EDT June 24, 2021 Updated: 1:11 PM EDT June 24, 2021
NEW TOWN, N.D. 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.
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