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Created in 1870 by the U.S. government, the reservation was named after Fort Berthold, a United States Army fort located on the northern bank of the Missouri River some twenty miles downstream (southeast) from the mouth of the Little Missouri River. [8] The green area (529) on the map turned U.S. territory on April 12, 1870, by executive order.
The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company's oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian ...
The first Fort Berthold was founded in 1845 on the upper Missouri River by the American Fur Company (controlled until 1830 by John Jacob Astor). It was originally called Fort James, but was renamed in 1846 for the late Berthold. As a consequence of the hostilities with the United States of the Dakota War of 1862, the Sioux burned this fort.
Spillcam was a live feed of the leak site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The live footage first became available to the general public on May 12 when BP was pressured by politicians to release the footage.
California Governor Gavin Newsom slammed offshore drilling in a news conference on Tuesday, after a major oil spill in the state.Roughly 3,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the Pacific Ocean ...
An estimated 230,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the floodwaters of the Rock River in Iowa after a freight train carrying the oil derailed on June 22.The company that owned the train, BNSF ...
The Fort Berthold Indian Reservation sits atop the Bakken Formation, the second most-productive geographic area for shale oil production in the United States. [10] The nation receives roughly 90 percent of its revenue from royalties and taxes on oil and gas development. [11]
The Morris J. Berman oil spill occurred on January 7, 1994, when the Morris J. Berman, a single-hull 302-foot-long barge, with the capacity to carry more than 3 million gallons of oil, collided with a coral reef near San Juan, Puerto Rico, [2] causing the release of 750,000 gallons of heavy grade oil. [2]