Climate News Network: Flaring of gas associated with oil production has long been a contentious issue: it not only releases millions of tons of harmful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere but it's also a chronic waste of a valuable energy resource.
Flaring in North Dakota has doubled over the past two years, with gas worth $1 billion literally going up in smoke in 2012.
Considerable progress has been made over recent years in reducing flaring: the World Bank estimates that between 2005 and 2011 there was a 20 percent...