EnergyMining & Drilling
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Coal Industry Pins Hopes on Exports as U.S. Market Shrinks (6/19/2013)
(Montana) -- Every few hours trains packed with coal pass through the sagebrush-covered landscape here in southern Montana, some on their way north to Canadian ports for...
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LETTER: Coal Exports and Prosperity (6/19/2013)
(Montana) -- As “Future of an Industry and a Tribe Hinges on a Coal Export Battle” (“The Energy Rush” series, front page, June 15) points out,...
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LCO Tribe Finds 'Brand New Way' To Protest: With A Harvest Camp (6/16/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- The Lac Courte Oreilles tribe is trying a unique way to help stop the proposed iron ore mine in the Penokees: gathering wild onions and mushrooms.
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$600-million deal with Saskatchewan First Nation (6/12/2013)
(Saskatchewan) -- Uranium giants Cameco and Areva have reached a $600-million deal with a Saskatchewan First Nation that supports their mining operations and drops a...
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Environmental groups decry Chaco leasing plan (6/8/2013)
(New Mexico) -- Environmental activists on Friday expressed concern about a proposed federal lease sale that could lead to oil and gas exploration near Chaco Culture...
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Tribe seeks to expand shale-oil drilling (6/7/2013)
(Colorado) -- The Southern Ute tribe plans to lease 12,000 acres of mineral rights to a tribal-owned production company, sparking a debate over drilling activities that...
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Interior official hears wide range of input on oil drilling in Arctic (6/6/2013)
(Alaska) -- Against the backdrop of Royal Dutch Shell's troubled 2012 attempt to drill in the Arctic Ocean, a top Interior official -- and former Alaskan -- heard...
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Tribe seeks to expand shale-oil drilling (6/5/2013)
(Colorado) -- Texas-based Swift Energy isn’t the only company chasing the lure of the Mancos Shale in La Plata County. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe-owned Red...
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Crow tribe signs oil lease deal with Wash. company (5/29/2013)
(Montana) -- Leaders of the Crow Indian Tribe have reached a lease agreement with a Washington state company that is seeking oil on the tribe's Montana reservation.
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Navajo plans to block access for uranium transport (5/27/2013)
(Arizona) -- A uranium mining company seeking a mineral lease on state land in northwestern Arizona could have a hard time transporting the ore off-site because of the...
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Northwest Territories Looking to Bid for Pipelines (5/27/2013)
(Northwest Territories) -- The enormous opposition to the potential pipelines (Enbridge and Trans-Canada) in BC has spurred the Northwest Territories (NWT) to speak up...
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2 more diesel refineries planned in North Dakota (5/26/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Dakota Prairie Refinery’s 3-year planning-to-completion timeline seems aggressive indeed, compared with the other two diesel-oriented refineries...
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Beckoning the Bakken: Will the Oil Boom Reach Montana's Impoverished Fort Peck Tribes? (5/26/2013)
(Montana) -- In Poplar, Mont., the Bakken boom is tantalizingly close. It's much closer than the 71 miles that separate this one-stoplight town on the Fort Peck...
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Column: Oil, gas and Chaco national park (5/25/2013)
(New Mexico) -- Inside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historic Park, the treasures of pre-Puebloan culture are protected by federal law and a staff of...
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New rules to address fracking on Indian lands (5/23/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Hydraulic fracturing on Indian land may become more difficult under new rules proposed by the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land...
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Traditional blessings (5/16/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Tony Mandan, an elder of the Three Affiliated Tribes, gave a blessing of the ground at the groundbreaking ceremony last week for the tribes'...
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TransCanada Told "You're Not Welcome Here' on Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation (5/15/2013)
(South Dakota) -- And with these firm words the TransCanada representatives were kicked out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation last week.
17 Total Articles on this Issue
Seminole Tribe
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FPL Electric Power Plant Back To Square One? (6/19/2013)
(Florida) -- In an effort to stop the construction of a Florida Power And Light generating plant in Hendry county, Florida, the Seminole Tribe of Florida Wednesday won a...
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Seminole challenge to FPL power plant site revived (6/19/2013)
(Florida) -- A lawsuit challenging Florida Power & Light’s proposed power plant site in Hendry County has been revived after an appeals court reversed...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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‘Every Plant And Tree Died’: Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions As Keystone Decision Looms (6/18/2013)
(Alberta) -- As the Obama administration’s decision regarding whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline draws nearer, the latest disaster is...
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Nobel Peace Laureates Urge Obama and Kerry to Nix Keystone XL (6/18/2013)
(USA) -- Firmly linking the Keystone XL pipeline with climate change, 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners are urging President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to...
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Native Sun News: Moccasins on the Ground battles Keystone (6/17/2013)
(South Dakota) -- In the wake of three public-school emergency preparation drills that cast Keystone XL Pipeline and uranium mining dissenters as “terrorists...
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TransCanada Caught Training Police to Treat Anti-Keystone XL Activists as "Terrorists" (6/16/2013)
(Nebraska) -- In the midst of recent national controversy surrounding government surveillance of the public, a recent Freedom of Information Act request to the Nebraska...
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Judge says Keystone XL pipeline suit should go to trial (6/12/2013)
(Nebraska) -- Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline won a round in court Tuesday when a judge turned down a request to dismiss their amended lawsuit against the state.
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LaDuke: Pipeline as life saver is pipe dream (6/12/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Just because you say something at a federal hearing doesn’t mean it’s accurate. A couple of weeks ago, North Dakota Mineral Resources...
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Arkansas pipeline spill casts shadow over Keystone XL (6/5/2013)
(Arkansas) -- On warm spring evenings, North Starlite Drive buzzed with children. They cycled around the cul-de-sac at the end of the wide, block-long road, shot baskets...
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Native Americans unite against pipeline (6/5/2013)
(USA) -- The Obama administration appears to be getting closer and closer to approving the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. The pipeline aims to transport tar sands...
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State Department Inspector General Probing Keystone XL Contractor’s Conflicts of Interest (6/3/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- In yet another investigation into the Obama Administration’s activities, the State Department Inspector General is probing the conflicts of...
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Ben Stein: Keystone XL protests are about a ‘mental disease or defect’ (6/1/2013)
(USA) -- Conservative economist Ben Stein joined in a joyful disparaging on Saturday of the opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, telling Fox News host Neil Cavuto...
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What TransCanada’s CEO Is Not Saying About The Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline (6/1/2013)
(USA) -- TransCanada has lobbied the U.S. government to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, hoping to transport the heavy, bitumen-laden tar sands crude oil to coastal...
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Canadian and U.S. natives vow to block oil pipelines (5/29/2013)
(USA) -- An alliance of Canadian and U.S. aboriginal groups vowed on Wednesday to block three multibillion-dollar oil pipelines that are planned to transport oil from...
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Is Keystone pipeline losing Democratic support? (5/24/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The most interesting aspect of this week’s House vote in favor of constructing the Keystone XL pipeline was not the fact that it passed—...
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Mock drill in S.D. riles Keystone pipeline opponents (5/24/2013)
(South Dakota) -- An emergency drill in Hot Springs has outraged opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and a proposed uranium mine in western South Dakota after...
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State Department releases thousands of Keystone XL comments (5/24/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. State Department released about 100,000 public comments it has received on TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the first batch...
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Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials (5/18/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with U.S. State Department officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, on...
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Full Text of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association Statement Against the Keystone XL Pipeline (5/18/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On this historic day of May 16, 2013, ten sovereign Indigenous nations maintain that the proposed TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline does not serve the...
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Red Nations shut down US 'consultation' on tarsands in South Dakota (5/17/2013)
(South Dakota) -- This morning at 9:00 a.m. the United States Department of State attempted to hold what they call a consultation with tribal representatives of the...
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Native American tribes challenge Obama over Keystone XL pipeline (5/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Leaders from 11 Native American tribes from South Dakota to Oklahoma walked out of a meeting with federal officials in Rapid City on Thursday to...
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Tribal leaders walk out of meeting about Keystone pipeline project (5/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Tribal representatives walked out of a meeting today with Department of State officials who came to Rapid City to discuss concerns about the Keystone...
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Tribal leaders walk out of pipeline meeting (5/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- In a historic move, representatives from several Native American tribes united and walked out on a meeting with U.S. State Department officials...
21 Total Articles on this Issue
Enbridge Pipeline
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Federal panel to hear final pitch for, against Northern Gateway (6/16/2013)
(British Columbia) -- The proponent and opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make their final pitches to a federal review panel starting Monday, at the last...
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First Nations Key to Future of Northern Gateway Pipeline (6/7/2013)
(British Columbia) -- Just a few weeks ago, proponents of pipelines between the Prairies and the West Coast were preparing for the worst. Adrian Dix, the apparently...
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BC government’s sneaky non-rejection of Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline (6/4/2013)
(British Columbia) -- Environmentalists across the country rejoiced at the news that the BC government formally opposed the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. But...
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B.C. officially opposes Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline (5/31/2013)
(British Columbia) -- The B.C. government has officially expressed its opposition to a proposal for the Northern Gateway pipeline project, saying it fails to address the...
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New approach needed to get First Nations' support for pipelines , report warns (5/31/2013)
(British Columbia) -- Aboriginal opposition is sufficient to kill West Coast pipeline projects such as Northern Gateway regardless of what happens with other governments...
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Forest County Potawatomi
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Food manufacturers evaluate Potawatomi digester option for waste (5/28/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- Southeastern Wisconsin food and beverage manufacturers recently had a chance to tour the anaerobic digester being constructed at Potawatomi Bingo Casino...
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Ho-Chunk Tribe
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Ho-Chunk plans waste-to-energy project (5/23/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- The Ho-Chunk Nation of Black River Falls plans to develop a biomass waste-to-energy plant that could use municipal solid waste, agricultural waste or...
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ANWR
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Alaska asks DOI to open ANWR to exploratory development (5/21/2013)
(Alaska) -- The state of Alaska was joined by an Alaska Native corporation executive in pressing the Obama administration to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to...
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State pushes offer to help pay for exploratory drilling in ANWR (5/21/2013)
(Alaska) -- Alaska is trying to drum up publicity for its offer to pay some of the cost of exploratory drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but the pitch...
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Enterprise Rancheria
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Respect is key to aboriginal approval of Northern Gateway pipeline (5/16/2013)
(British Columbia) -- Contrary to what regular readers of newspapers might believe, aboriginal communities in Canada are not knee-jerk opponents of development. On the...
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Other News
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CGI Chicago: Economic future of tribal nations is blowing in the wind (6/19/2013)
(Illinois) -- Last week at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative, hosted by the City of Chicago, former President Bill Clinton and leaders from six Sioux Indian tribes...
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Film explores effects of solar projects on Native American life (6/19/2013)
(California) -- Documentary filmmaker Robert Lundahl’s latest work, "Who Are My People?," explores the effects of large-scale solar energy developments...
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Sioux Indian Tribes Adopt Wind Energy (6/17/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Leaders from six Sioux Indian Tribes along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton have announced a new wind power initiative for South Dakota.
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BLOG: Tribes battle austerity with energy development (6/16/2013)
(New Mexico) -- The Albuquerque ambience, as we rolled into town to cover a tribal energy conference, was tinted with doom.
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Native Americans decry eagle deaths tied to wind farms (6/13/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A Native American tribe in Oklahoma on Thursday registered its opposition to a U.S. government plan that would allow a wind farm to kill as many as three...
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Tribal leaders learn from each other at energy conference (6/13/2013)
(New Mexico) -- When Roger Fragua took the stage during the Developing Tribal Energy Resources and Economies conference, he sent a message loud and clear.
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US Chamber of Commerce throws support behind tribal energy legislation (6/13/2013)
(New Mexico) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is throwing its support behind federal legislation aimed at boosting energy development in Indian Country by streamlining...
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Tribal leaders focus on energy development hurdles (6/11/2013)
(New Mexico) -- American Indian leaders from across the U.S. are pointing to both federal and tribal politics and bureaucracy as some of the reasons energy development...
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Tribes say politics, policy remain hurdles to energy development in Indian Country (6/11/2013)
(New Mexico) -- Federal and tribal politics and bureaucracy remain some of the reasons energy development has been so difficult in Indian Country, American Indian...
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Chief Red Eagle opposes ‘Eagle Take’ permit from wind developer (6/10/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- Osage Nation Principal Chief John Red Eagle is opposing Wind Capital Group’s application for an “eagle take” permit from the U.S. Fish...
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For First Nations, one-size energy policy will never fit all (6/9/2013)
(British Columbia) -- Since his appointment three months ago as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s envoy for First Nations and energy issues in Western Canada, Doug...
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Campo Tribe To Vote June 9 On Shu'Luuk Wing Project (6/6/2013)
(California) -- On Sunday, June 9, the Campo Band of Mission Indians’ general council ( tribal members age 18 and over) will be asked to vote on whether to approve...
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Some Native-Americans Opposing Osage Wind Farm's Request For 'Take Permit' (6/6/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- Wind turbines in rural Osage County will soon be producing clean, renewable energy. It is a big investment that some see as a step in the right direction,...
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Shale gas truck seized by 'native warriors' in N.B. (6/4/2013)
(New Brunswick) -- A shale gas exploration company's service vehicle was surrounded and seized by a group of self-described native warriors near Elsipogtog First...
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Peconic Institute Partners With Shinnecock Nation For First Major Project (5/31/2013)
(New York) -- One of the many displays inside the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center & Museum notes that the surrounding waters were once known by tribes as "The...
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Tribal Shellfish Hatchery Will Get Energy Efficient Facelift (5/31/2013)
(New York) -- The Shinnecock Indian Nation and the Peconic Institute, a non-profit sustainable development group, on Friday morning at a press conference announced that...
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Wind farm opposition garners First Nation's support (5/30/2013)
(Thunder Bay) -- The group opposing a wind farm on the Nor'Wester Mountains had some additional support at a rally Wednesday night. The Nor'Wester Mountain...
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Navajo Generating Station lease extension talks stall (5/28/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) lease extension is in limbo because the power plant's owners can't agree to all of the lease amendments the...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Announces $7 Million to Promote Clean Energy in Tribal Communities (5/26/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced up to $7 million in new funding opportunities to help deploy clean energy projects in tribal...
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Ten Tribes Receive Department of Energy Clean-Energy Technical Assistance (5/24/2013)
(Washington) -- Biomass facilities, solar projects and even relocation support are among the tribal initiatives receiving technical assistance awards from the U.S....
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