Three Affiliated Tribes on track for North Dakotan refinery construction.

摘要

The Department of the Interior (DOT) has approved an application for "land-into-trust" status which constitutes an important step towards construction of the first new US refinery in over 30 years, to be located on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation began the permitting process in 2003 with the intention of processing Canadian tar sands, but, given the recent Bakken shale boom, currently plan to refine Bakken crude into diesel fuel, propane, and naphtha products.