<div>A new refinery is proposed to be built in North Dakota that would process Canada's tar sands product: </div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2009/09/02/news/opinion/editorials/doc4a9e78360118f333939616.txt" target="_blank">http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2009/09/02/news/opinion/editorials/doc4a9e78360118f333939616.txt</a></div>
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<div>Sep 02, 2009 - 09:05:16 CDT</div>
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<div></div><span>No new oil refineries have been approved in the United States since 1976. But last week, three federal agencies issued a final environment impact statement for a 13,000-barrel per day clean fuels refinery proposed by the Three Affiliated Tribes for a site near Makoti. The proposed refinery would process pre-refined oil from Canadian tar sands into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and propane.<br>
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<center><font face="Arial" size="+3">No New Oil Refinery in Fort Berthold!</font> </center>
<p>Environmental Awareness Committee's Save Our Sacred (S.O.S.) Earth Campaign
<p>One of the few active proposals for a new oil refinery in the U.S. is in North Dakota, where the refinery would be located on the indigenous lands of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara) on the Fort Berthold reservation. Triad, Inc. is pushing for development of this refinery. Local residents are bravely resisting this and need financial support. North Dakota is supposed to be the "Saudi Arabia of wind" -- not Saudi Arabia! Area residents already suffer from severe coal plant pollution. This proposed oil refinery would be the first to be built without any air pollution permits!
<p><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.energyjustice.net/oil/nd/" target="_blank">http://www.energyjustice.net/oil/nd/</a>
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<li><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/08/18/ndrefinery/" target="_blank">Tribal refinery plan draws national attention</a> (NPR 8/23/2006)
<li><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413459" target="_blank">Fort Berthold residents question proposed oil refinery</a> (Indian Country Today, 8/16/2006)
<li><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/016825.asp" target="_blank">Tex Hall loses re-election bid at Fort Berthold</a> (Indianz.com, 11/9/2006) - see archive of other related news stories here
<li><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.refineryreform.org/News_MinotDailyNews_030904.html" target="_blank">Environmental Awareness Committee Group opposes intended refinery</a> (Refinery Reform Campaign press release, 3/9/2004)
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<li>Environmental Protection Agency: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.epa.gov/region8/compliance/nepa/refinerydeis.html" target="_blank">Draft Environmental Impact Statement</a> (see <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.epa.gov/region8/compliance/nepa/refinerydeis.html#about" target="_blank">location</a>)
<li><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.mhanation.com/main/oil_refine.html" target="_blank">Pro-refinery page run by the leadership of the Three Affiliated Tribes</a> </li></li></li>
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