Government:  Agency Not Bound To Tribal Law In Approving Fracking Permits

Mealey's (April 16, 2020, 8:48 AM EDT) -- BISMARCK, N.D. — The secretary of the Interior on April 13 filed a brief in North Dakota federal court contending that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is not required to apply Native American tribal law to hydraulic fracturing wells on fee land that drill into federal and fee minerals (Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation v. United States Department of the Interior, et al., No. 19-37, D. N.D.)....