Tribe Takes Battle With DOI Over Fracking Permits To 8th Circuit

Mealey's (July 18, 2022, 8:34 AM EDT) -- BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota Indian tribe on July 8 appealed to the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a federal court’s grant of summary judgment to the Department of the Interior (DOI) and an energy development company on the tribe’s claims that the government acted arbitrarily in issuing permits for a hydraulic fracturing drilling project....