Tribe Objects To Magistrate’s Endorsement Of Judgment For DOI, Fracking Company

Mealey's (December 21, 2021, 12:20 PM EST) -- BISMARCK, N.D. — A magistrate judge’s recommendation to grant summary judgment to the Department of the Interior (DOI) and an energy development company on an Indian tribe’s claims that the government acted arbitrarily in issuing permits for a hydraulic fracturing drilling project should be rejected and the permits should be revoked because the well sites endanger the tribe’s only supply of drinking water, the tribe argues in Dec. 17 objections to the recommendation....