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Flaring lights up North Dakota
2013-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
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