Down to Earth
A Q&A with environmental journalist and author Erika Bolstad about how a family inheritance created a personal climate change conflict
In 2009, Erika Bolstad’s mother received a letter offering her a lease from an oil company for mineral rights she didn’t know she owned. The letter came with a small check and the potential for big riches.
This was during the Bakken oil boom, when fracking turned a remote northw…
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