ND burns off natural gas due to lack of pipelines

Associated Press by JAMES MacPHERSON | Aug. 21, 2009 (News Report)

Enough natural gas to heat every home in North Dakota through at least two brutal winters was burned off as an unmarketable byproduct in the state's oil patch in 2008, records obtained by The Associated Press show. Full Story »

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Topics: Environment, Pollution, Oil and Gas, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 26, 2009 - 1:04 AM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 26, 2009

Interesting, though it seem this should have been known for a while.

Economic interest in getting the oil money as soon as possible should not override the bad environmental effects of the carbon dioxide upon climate.

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