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APNewsBreak: Big Oil is big funder of Burgum inaugural
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's largest industry was also the biggest contributor to Gov. Doug Burgum's inaugural celebration. That's according to a review of a list of sponsors provided by the governor's office in response to a request from The...
Massive 2013 oil spill in North Dakota still not cleaned up
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Three years and three months later, a massive oil spill in North Dakota still isn't fully cleaned up. The company responsible hasn't even set a date for completion. Though crews have been working around the clock to deal with t...
Company: Equipment didn't detect North Dakota oil leak
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Electronic monitoring equipment failed to detect a pipeline rupture that spewed more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil into a North Dakota creek, the pipeline's operator said Monday. It's not yet clear why the monitoring e...
Federal government blocks Dakota Access oil pipeline route
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday that it won't grant an easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota, handing a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters, who argued t...
Famously cold N. Dakota winter menaces pipeline protest camp
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — So far, the hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands. But i...
Orders could have little effect on pipeline protest camp
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion p...
North Dakota tavern takes trademark as North American center
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — Crediting "barstool science," a small-town tavern in central North Dakota is laying claim as the center of North America after snatching the title from a nearby city that allowed its trademark to lapse. Hanson's...
Feds say they won't evict sprawling pipeline protest camp
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, Oct. 1, 2016) — The sprawling encampment that's a living protest against the four-state Dakota Access pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining — food, firewood, fresh water and shelter. Everything, that is, exc...
Federal intervention on oil pipeline project unprecedented
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, posted Sept. 10, 2016) – The Standing Rock Sioux's effort to block a four-state oil pipeline got a lifeline when the federal government temporarily stopped the project, a move some say likely may forever change the way all e...
AP News Guide: The Dakota Access pipeline, what now?
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, posted Sept. 12, 2016) — A federal judge kept in place Monday a previous work-stoppage order on a small portion of the nearly 1,200-mile (1931 km) Dakota Access oil pipeline while federal agencies review construction permits f...
Oil pipeline protest turns violent in southern North Dakota
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A protest of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned violent after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota. Morton County S...
