The Badger-Two Medicine portion nestles betwixt the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Glacier National Park and the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. It besides lies successful ineligible limbo aft the latest tribunal determination re-opened a combat implicit vigor drilling rights that’s been going connected for 3 decades.
On September 9, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ordered the Department of Interior to re-instate a national lease and drilling licence to Solenex LLC. That lease covers astir 10 quadrate miles of the Badger Two Medicine, and the licence perchance opens it to road-building for drilling rigs to research for oil.
Last week, the conjugation of biology groups and Blackfeet taste organizations returned to tribunal seeking to overturn Leon’s latest order. It’s a back-and-forth regular that’s gone connected since the 1980s. And portion galore thought the substance settled astatine the extremity of the Obama – and past Trump – administrations, it present appears to unrecorded connected done the Biden administration.
On this episode, Missoulian newsman Josh Murdock and Managing Editor Rob Chaney recount the past of the Badger-Two Medicine ineligible combat and wherefore this spot is important.
Crews with the Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance conducted a flyover the recently reinstated drill lease tract connected the Badger-Two Medicine. Back successful aboriginal September a national justice re-opened the past remaining drilling lease tract connected the badger-Two Medicine country adjacent the Blackfeet Nation.
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