Blackfeet traditionalists and conservationists reach historic settlement agreement with leaseholder, ending 40-year struggle to prevent oil and gas drilling on public lands sacred to the Blackfeet Nation
A federal District Court in Washington, D.C. has reinstated a canceled energy lease and drilling permit in Montana’s famed Badger-Two Medicine region, prolonging the threat of industrialization across Blackfeet Nation…
The response brief filed by plaintiff Solenex LLC repeatedly asks this Court to disregard controlling precedent; ignore plain statutory, regulatory, and contractual language; and adopt outlier positions. Solenex suggests that…
Solenex previously owned a federal oil and gas lease, which was issued to Solenex’s predecessor in 1982. In 2013, Solenex initiated this case in an effort to compel Defendants to…
Pikuni Traditionalist Association, Blackfeet Headwaters Alliance, Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance, Montana Wilderness Association, National Parks Conservation Association, and The Wilderness Society (collectively, “PTA”) submit this brief to oppose summary judgment arguments…
A coalition of Blackfeet cultural leaders, local community members, and conservationists filed a request in federal court to oppose a Louisiana oil company’s legal campaign to drill in the Badger-Two…
On March 17, 2016, the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) cancelled a mineral lease held by Solenex LLC in an area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest where Congress…
