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Regulations Could Douse North Dakota Gas Flares
2014-10-20 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Burning crude oil as gasoline in vehicles is already one of the world's biggest sources of carbon dioxide emissions, and one of the United States' largest sources of crude oil is the Bakken shale in North Dakota. NASA satellite images showing bright lights in the Bakken fields illustrate a side effect of crude oil production there that is also problematic for the climate. All the light coming from those fields are thousands of flames burning off, or flaring, natural gas. A NASA nighttime satellite...
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