Energy and Environment

Obama shuts down drilling at national forest

By John Siciliano
Published November 16, 2016 9:25pm ET
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Obama shuts down drilling at national forest
In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, a train hauls oil into Glacier National Park near the Badger-Two Medicine National Forest in northwest Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) | Matthew Brown

The Interior Department brought the curtain down on oil and natural gas drilling at a national forest Wednesday over concerns it would harm sacred tribal lands.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the agency would cancel 15 drilling leases near the Blackfeet Nation’s land in Montana, where the large independent oil and gas company Devon Energy has held drilling rights in the Badger-Two Medicine Area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest.

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