Pawnee Nation Sues to Stop Drilling Permits

The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit Friday against the Interior Department, Bureau of Indian Affairs and U.S. Bureau of Land Management, asking a judge to void recently approved drilling permits on tribal land and halt the issuance of new ones.

The lawsuit was filed by the tribe’s Attorney General Don Mason on behalf of the tribe and Pawnee Nation member Walter R. Echo-Hawk in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma based in Tulsa.

As reported in TulsaWorld.com, the 5.8 magnitude quake on September 3, 2016, damaged Pawnee Nation administrative buildings and caused the state to shut down 37 injection wells near the quake's epicenter.

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