On August 9th, the North Dakota Health Council decided to maintain their previously made (2015) decisions to increase radioactive waste limits for disposal in North Dakota, and to ratify the news rules on radioactive waste. This will result in companies applying for the disposal of radioactive waste at their facilities, and...
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Aerial Photography of Illegally Stored Oilfield Wastes
The Salted Lands Council believes the public deserves to know how oilfield wastes are handled in our state. While we mainly focus on the damage caused by produced water, or “brine,” spills, there are many other hazardous materials involved at well sites. In our last document, we provided aerial imagery...
Unpaid Royalties and Damaged Lands: Answering Questions
The Dooley Law Office and Salted Lands Council are sponsoring a workshop for mineral and surface owners on Nov. 20, 2015. The free, day-long workshop, entitled Unpaid Royalties and Damaged Lands: Answering Royalty and Surface Owners’ Questions, aims to help mineral owners enforce proper accounting upon producers and improve your next surface...
Other side of the boom: Landowners say state bowing to oil
ANTLER—As state officials met in Bismarck to approve new oil conditioning standards and to discuss the drop in crude oil prices, landowners from the Oil Patch gathered at a separate meeting to review a different side of the Bakken oil boom—...