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As gas continues to go up in the air, North Dakota moves to tighten loose flaring rules

2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EnergyWire: Each day for the past few weeks, Bob Skarphol has driven past an oil well near his North Dakota home, where a 30-foot flame shoots into the sky. The well's operator is burning the natural gas that's produced with the oil, even though there's a gas pipeline across the road from the well site, Skarphol, a Republican state legislator from Tioga, said in an interview. It's a common sight in North Dakota's Bakken Shale oil field, where about one-third of natural gas production is being burned in flares....

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