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WASHINGTON — Is hydraulic fracturing — better known as fracking — safe, as the oil and gas industry claims? Or does the controversial drilling technique that has spurred a domestic energy boom contaminate drinking water, as environmental groups and other critics charge? After six years and more than $29 million, the Environmental Protection Agency says it doesn't know. A new report issued Tuesday said fracking poses a risk to drinking water in some circumstances, but a lack of information precludes a definitive statement on how severe the r...
Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday mounted what is likely to be one final push for a short special legislative session before the end of the year, asking lawmakers to join in passing relief for spiking health insurance premiums in the state’s private market, and finally approving two major spending bills that stalled months ago. “This is it,” Dayton said at a news conference Tuesday. “It’s a question, now, of do they really want to do this?” For months, Dayton and legislative leaders have negotiated terms of a possible special session but failed to s...
Minnesota government’s watchdog-in-chief, Jim Nobles, questions authority — no matter who it is. Nobles once put a state attorney general under oath in an investigation, an awkward spot for the state’s chief law enforcement official. Then there was the time a former governor bluntly informed Nobles that he’d put him through hell and tarnished his legacy. Leading frequent deep dives into the use and misuse of taxpayer money, Nobles has embarrassed several generations of top state political leaders, highlighted indiscretions that drove a Univers...
ROCK HILL - School officials are taking legal action aimed at settling a decades-long $4.5 million debt. In October, the Rock Hill school board approved a recommendation for legal action against the Catawba Indian Nation to settle a debt the tribe owes the district from an agreement dating to the 1990s. After failed attempts to have the tribe pay off the debt, the board is now going through the legal process to have tribal property sold at public auction to help settle the debt, said Mychal Frost, director of communications for Rock Hill...
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II and Gov. Jack Dalrymple met late Monday in an attempt to restore relations following months of conflict over the Dakota Access Pipeline: The result may be a barricaded bridge near the reservation will be inspected and possibly reopened. Dalrymple said the meeting went well and laid a foundation for future efforts to rebuild the two governments' relationship. “We resolved right away to not talk about frustration or anger about past issues,” said Dalrymple, adding the conversation was mai...
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II has indicated he is discouraged by the swirl of accusations and rumors following his request Dec. 5 for the thousands of people occupying the Oceti Sakowin protest camp to disband and go home. He made the request in the teeth of a severe blizzard with deadly wind chills and following a decision by the Department of the Army that it will deny an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Missouri River/Lake Oahe, pending an environmental review and look at possible reroutes. At...
BISMARCK - There are only about 300 protesters left at the camp just off the Standing Rock Indian Reservation south of Bismarck, said Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault on Tuesday. That’s down from several thousand people estimated as recently as a week ago. Archambault, at the center of the pipeline protest for months, grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota. He attended school in Kyle, South Dakota before attending high school in Fort Yates on the Standing Rock reservation that straddles the South Dakota/North Dakota b...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault have met to discuss reducing tensions between law officers and Dakota Access oil pipeline opponents, as the main protest camp begins to clear out after the federal government stalled the $3.8 billion project. Developer Energy Transfer Partners and the Army are battling in court over permission for the pipeline to cross under the Missouri River in southern North Dakota, the last large chunk of construction for the project to move North Dakota...
On December 4, 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers stunned the world when they announced they would prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a proposed 1,172-mile oil pipeline crossing four states. The pipeline would bulldoze sacred sites at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. After nearly a year of protests that mesmerized millions—complete with encampments of as many as 7,000 people in tents, teepees, and temporary housing—the tribal members and activists ach...
A pipeline protester accused of firing a gun three times toward police officers had as many spent shell casings in her revolver and additional bullets in her pockets, a federal agent testified Monday. The testimony was among the evidence U.S. District Court Magistrate Charles Miller considered in finding probable cause against Red Fawn Fallis in U.S. District Court in Bismarck. The 37-year-old Denver woman is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm in connection with the incident on Oct. 27, when she was arrested as police pushed...
PORTLAND, Maine — In early November, an herbalist from Whitefield was drawn to the sacred Standing Rock Indian Reservation to join those protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. “I just kept dreaming that I was there, over and over,” said 45-year-old Lauren Pignatello, who owns Milk and Honey Cafe of Swallowtail Farm in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood. She recently returned to Maine after three weeks at Standing Rock, where she tended to injured activists on the front lines. http://bangordailynews.com/...
North Dakota law enforcement officials say they've been "completely and utterly abandoned" by the federal government in response to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. On Friday, 12 officials wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, describing inaction by the federal government during the protests. It was signed by sheriffs and police chiefs from across the state, including Morton County, Minot, Fargo and Wahpeton. “The federal government’s response to the events in our community has been appalling, and it is abundantly clear they have no...
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick Tuesday for Energy Secretary, former Texas Governor Rick Perry sits on the board of directors of Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access pipeline, which has been fiercely opposed by Native Americans and environmentalists. Perry joined the board of Energy Transfer Partners in February 2015 after serving as Texas governor for 14 years. During his failed presidential bid in 2015, the Texas-based oil giant pumped millions of dollars into Perry’s campaign and super PACs. The fact that Tru...
President-elect Donald Trump has offered the interior secretary position to Montana’s freshman Rep. Ryan Zinke, an ex-Navy Seal commander, according to two transition officials and someone familiar with the offer. The sources said Zinke has yet to accept and has given no indication as to which way he is leaning. But Zinke is also being discussed by prominent Washington Republicans as a possible 2018 candidate for the Montana Senate seat now held by Democrat Sen. Jon Tester. Zinke’s office declined to comment, and Trump’s transition team did n...
BELFIELD – Belle Fourche Pipeline Co. estimates that 130,200 gallons of oil spilled into a tributary of the Little Missouri River last week and another 46,200 gallons leaked into a hillside, the North Dakota Department of Health said Monday. The spill discovered by a landowner on Dec. 5 was not detected by monitoring equipment on the pipeline, which is owned by of True Companies of Wyoming. The spill has contaminated 5.4 miles of Ash Coulee Creek but does not appear to have reached the Little Missouri River, said Bill Suess, spill i...
BEMIDJI, Minn. — A community meeting hosted by energy company Enbridge quickly dissolved Tuesday after a Bemidji police officer asked environmental activist Winona LaDuke to leave. The meeting, held at the DoubleTree hotel in Bemidji, was meant to give community members and landowners information about the proposed replacement of Line 3, an Enbridge oil pipeline that runs from Alberta, Canada, through northern Minnesota to Superior, Wis. LaDuke, who founded the Native-led environmentalist group Honor the Earth, and other activists hoped to a...
Federal regulators have determined that hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas fields can contaminate local drinking water, pleasing state environmentalists who are pushing for more regulation over the fracking industry and drawing criticism from some in energy who say the decision is politically motivated. The Environmental Protection Agency released a final assessment of the risks of fracking Tuesday. Fracking is the practice of injecting a mix of chemicals at high pressure underground to access hard-to-reach oil and gas deposits. While it has...
SALT LAKE CITY — A Navajo man who killed his best friend during a drunken fight last year was sentenced to 63 months in prison Tuesday. Raymus Sheldon Whitehorse, 26, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to manslaughter within Indian Country, a felony, for the death of Anthony John Judy, 31. Judge Dee Benson also sentenced him to three years' probation when he gets out of prison. Whitehorse had been drinking in August 2015 when he went to Judy's home to drink some more. He had a 9 mm handgun with him that he placed on a shelf in the house, a...
Federal authorities are looking for a Pine Ridge man charged in a Nov. 30 fatal shooting on the reservation. Thomas Joseph Brewer, 26, will face a second-degree murder charge in the death of Shawn Stevens around 12:15 a.m. Brewer disappeared soon after the incident, authorities said. Stevens and his wife were in their trailer at Pine Ridge’s East Ridge Housing when they saw an SUV spinning in circles in a nearby intersection, according to an FBI report filed in U.S. District Court. The couple were worried the SUV might hit their parked v...
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A federal appeals court says the Yakama Indian Nation can't sue to block collection of a federal tax on tobacco products made by a company on the reservation. The decision was issued Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeals court vacated a lower court's decision for lack of jurisdiction and remanded the case back to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington for dismissal. http://www.lebanondailyrecord.com/article_61a3caa3-75c5-59cd-940b-247aed4fafa3.html...
One of Whiteclay's four beer stores has been fined $600 for selling alcohol to a teenager from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in October. A Nebraska State Patrol trooper found a 24-ounce can of Corona beer and a six-pack of Budweiser in the teenager's car after stopping him as he left Whiteclay about 9 p.m. on Oct. 1. The 19-year-old, who had a tribal identification card, said he bought the beer from Arrowhead Inn. http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/whiteclay-beer-store-fined-for-selling-to-p...
With Donald Trump moving into the White House and retiring Senate Democrat Harry Reid heading back to Nevada, a South Carolina congressman is optimistic the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository soon could be back on the federal government's agenda. Republican Joe Wilson told the Columbia, S.C., Rotary Club Monday that the president-elect's transition team has distributed a survey to Energy Department personnel about the long-delayed facility 90 miles north of Las Vegas that could host nuclear waste now held in South Carolina — something N...
MCLAUGHLIN, S.D. -- A man from far north-central South Dakota on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation has been charged with murder in the death of a child. Matthew St .Pierre of McLaughlin near the North Dakota-South Dakota border entered a plea of not guilty last week in federal court after an indictment charged him with repeatedly striking a child which caused injuries that led to his death. The incident occurred between Oct. 11 and Oct. 12, said the U.S. Attorney’s office for South Dakota. https://www.wday.com/news/crime/...
AUBURN, Washington— When Misty Jones looks back on her drug-using years, she sees a pattern. Since she was 18, she’s been having babies, using drugs, losing custody of her babies, and trying to quit drugs so she can get them back. Now 36 and in recovery from heroin addiction for 15 months, Jones, a member of the Port Gamble S’Klallam tribe, said she realizes she needs to beat her drug habit before she can take care of her children. “This time it’s going to be all about Misty and getting clean and not about Misty and getting her kids back,” sh...
The meltdown at the top of the world proceeded at an unprecedented clip over the past year, a sweeping scientific report said Tuesday. The annual Arctic Report Card, presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco, documented rapid changes in the region in 2016, including several records. Air and sea-surface temperatures are higher, sea ice is sparser and more fragile and ocean waters are absorbing more carbon, changing their chemistry to more acidic levels, while...
