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North Dakota Still Has Tons Of Jobs Despite Cheap Oil

ByGuest Post February 10, 2016February 10, 2016

Andrew Follett The oil boom in North Dakota is slackening due to low prices, but the region isn’t close to going bust and still has tons of jobs, details a Sunday article in The New York Times. The shale boom has utterly changed North Dakota’s economy, making it the center of America’s rapidly growing oil industry…

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Study: Shale Gas Emissions Are Massively Overestimated

ByGuest Post October 28, 2015

Andrew Follett The amount of methane leaked from shale gas production has been massively overestimated according to a new study. The study was authored by University of California Professor of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory senior scientist Dr. Richard Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller, a former policy adviser for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…