Some Native American tribes have banned fracking on tribal lands. With vast deposits of oil underneath its borders, Three Affiliated Tribes is at a crossroads. Should the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in western North Dakota drill for black gold or outlaw oil exploration on its land? Tribal member Marty…
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In 2014, 2 below zero traveled to Biarritz, France for Smart FIPA, an interactive competition at the Festival International de Programes Audiovisual. 2 below zero’s Todd Melby presented Rough Ride: The Oil Patch Tour to the largely European audience. Rough Ride is the first interactive documentary from the Black Gold Boom…
A new four-part series on deaths and injuries in the oil patch hit North Dakota last week, as part of Todd’s Black Gold Boom. Supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Reporting, the series looked at a spike in the number of deaths by fumes and traffic accidents, as…