HST 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bakken Pipeline, Albert B. Fall, Mission Indians
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Situation now: 2004, us uses 20. 5 million barrels of oil daily, 10 minute shower = 50 gals (5 gals a min) New oil in north dakota: new oil is found due to fracking. So it has been hard/long time to find it. Fracking takes place about 5000-7000 (?) feet below the earth. This oil is in the form of shale (?) Dakota access pipeline: texas partners -- running the pipeline. Mining of natural resources on indian lands has created a paradox or tragedy & an unforeseen blessing. 1/3 of the nation"s coal in the west, three percent of america"s oil and gas, & 37% of potential uranium rest underground belonging to. Since 1900 the issue of mining has produced numerous problems for the. The polarization of view has dictated one side of believers in tradition that mining desecrates mother earth & the opposite. Oil in oklahoma: in these early decades, oil companies flooded indian country, in.
