Top lawyer reopens N.D. mineral rights dispute

摘要

The Interior Department solicitor's office has temporarily withdrawn an Obama-era legal opinion involving the disputed ownership of minerals beneath the bed of the Missouri River in North Dakota.rnThe withdrawal, quietly issued Friday, potentially gives the state another shot at minerals that an Obama-era opinion concluded belonged to Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. About one-fifth of oil produced in North Dakota comes from lands overseen by the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.