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Industry in North Dakota Promises Reduce Flared Natural Gas
2014-01-29 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Faced with growing criticism and lawsuits, an oil industry task force representing hundreds of companies in North Dakota pledged on Wednesday to make an all-out effort to capture almost all the natural gas that is being flared in the Bakken shale oil field by the end of the decade. The gas being flared as a byproduct of a rush of oil drilling releases roughly six million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, roughly equivalent to three medium-sized coal plants. Because of a lack...
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