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North Dakota gas flaring doubles, pumping CO2 into air

2014-03-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Fracking for crude oil is big business in North Dakota, but with that oil is coming a steadily increasing amount of wasted natural gas that is burned off, releasing large amounts of climate change-driving carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new U.S. Energy Information Administration data. The Bakken shale of North Dakota is one of America's largest sources of crude oil. It's produced by drilling and then hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shale formations deep underground. But the...

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