Delvin Cree

Life on the Fort Berthold Reservation From an Oil-and-Gas Specialist

On a recent warm sunny day I watched as quite a few 18-wheelers, large tandem service trucks and 4x4 pick-up trucks (with big tires) drive by my brother's place on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Once in a while an ol' rez car will accompany this same highway which is very busy day and night....

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April 09, 2012

North Dakota Oil Boom Bringing Jobs, Wealth—and a Looming Humanitarian Crisis

Harold Monteau
March 15, 2012

Indian lands are thought to contain a

Alberta Oil Sands Up Close: Gunshot Sounds, Dead Birds, a Moonscape

Carol Berry
February 02, 2012
If you can imagine the bleak landscape of the moon, you can envision the desolate, 54,000-square-mile tar sands of northern Alberta, a focus of controversy and concern in Canada, t...

Top U.S. Export for 2011 Was Fuel; U.S. Gas Prices at Record High

ICTMN Staff
January 02, 2012
For the first time since 1949, fuel -- gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel -- was the United States' biggest export in terms of dollars, the Associated Press reports ...

Oil Discovery in Ecuador Prompts Plan to Protect Indigenous Territories

Barbara Fraser
December 07, 2011
Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park is one of the richest places on earth, with a wealth of flora and fauna—some found nowhere else on the planet—in its forests, and an estimated 850 mi...

Anti-Oil Sands Protesters Target Ottawa September 26

ICTMN Staff
September 24, 2011
Calling it "one of the largest acts of civil disobedience on the climate issue that Canada has ever seen," the Council of Canadians is urging people to converge on Ottawa on Monday...

MHA Nation Objects to EPA Ruling Affecting Oil Drilling

ICTMN Staff
September 07, 2011
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation) said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented a new rule without consulting tribes, reported The Minot Daily News ...
Jerry Reynolds

Exposing 'a Model of Social Humiliation'

The Itika Guasu Investment Fund may have broken new ground in Bolivia and Latin America, and internationally. But the negotiation process exposed "a model of social humiliation" that still threatens impoverished Indigenous people wherever they press a valid claim to valuable property....

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August 03, 2011

MHA Nation Requests Oil Companies Help Repair Reservation Roads

ICTMN Staff
July 29, 2011
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation is working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to request several oil companies sign a cooperative agreement to help repair damaged roads on it...

Bitumen Extraction Explained (in Animation), and Jon Stewart Targets Oil Sands

ICTMN Staff
July 31, 2011
First, an animated video detailing the process and scope of what is called the largest industrial project in history, the Alberta Oil Sands ...

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