WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — One of two remaining candidates running to be the next leader of an oil-rich North Dakota American Indian nation says he will work to slow oil development if environmental protections there cannot be met.
Mark Fox is a tribal tax attorney and candidate for chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. Fox says he is not an advocate of the oil industry or rapid development on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
Fox and tribal attorney Damon Williams will face off in a Nov. 4 contest that will determine the tribes’ next leader.
Williams says the reservation needs additional regulators to ensure that the oil industry is acting responsibly and safely.
About a third of oil produced in North Dakota’s comes from land on the reservation.
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