2023-10-26 19:27:00
An oil and gas exploration company lost its bid to recover its gas lease within western North Dakota’s Fort Berthold Reservation following a federal court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to hear the case.
Prima Exploration Inc. had claimed that two other exploration companies, PetroShale Inc. and Enerplus Resources Corp., secretly worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to secure an oil and gas lease covering more than 300 acres of the reservation.
The agency had terminated Prima’s lease for some of the land in 2013 and then segregated the rest in 2015, which opened up leasing for the two other …
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