IE Investigations
Dangerous Air? Data Lacking On Oil And Gas Waste Emissions
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A new study of air emissions from oil and gas waste pits may yield information about public health hazards.
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Millions Of Tons Oil And Gas Waste: Hazardous Or Not?
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The United States is on the verge of becoming the world’s top producer of oil – that’s according to the International Energy Agency. But the oil boom is also leading to a boom in toxic oil field waste that can end up in open pit disposal sites. There are increasing concerns over the dangers these disposal sites pose for air quality.
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Pipeline Across Your Land? Collective Bargaining Helps
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Millions of miles of pipeline are slated to be built in the United States over the next two decades and most that will happen on private property. Historically, property owners haven’t benefited from pipeline construction, but that’s changing.
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Dark Side Of The Boom: The Formula For Alaska’s Safety Success
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The dangers of the Bering Sea crab fishery have been made famous by the reality TV show Deadliest Catch, but in the last 15 years, it’s become much safer, in large part thanks to collaboration between industry, scientists and regulators. We wondered: are there lessons that the oil and gas industry could learn from the crab industry’s safety gains?
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Data-Dive: Where Is The Oil And Gas Industry Most Dangerous?
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Inside Energy Data Journalist Jordan Wirfs-Brock explains how she calculated oil and gas fatality rates state by state.
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Wrangling Workplace Fatality Numbers: Data Woes And Wins
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Workplace fatality data, specifically the data that goes into calculating workplace fatality rates, is quite possibly the most unruly data Inside Energy has wrangled yet. Not because it’s hard, but because it’s nearly impossible to capture the full story of how dangerous the oil and gas industry is at a local level. Here are some of the biggest challenges involved in analyzing workplace fatality data.
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Dark Side Of The Boom: Why Is Wyoming Safer?
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For more than a decade, Wyoming has been among the most dangerous places in the nation for workers. Fatalities peaked in the late 2000s, at the height of the state’s natural gas drilling frenzy. The number of deaths has fallen in recent years, but has the safety culture changed, or did the drilling rigs just move on?
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North Dakota Governor Pledges To Investigate State’s High Workplace Fatalities
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North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple tells Inside Energy he plans to study the problem of worker fatalities in North Dakota as a result of our reporting.
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Dark Side Of The Boom: What Makes North Dakota Oil And Gas So Dangerous?
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Part two in our Dark Side of the Boom series explores why North Dakota’s oil and gas industry is so dangerous, and what Governor Jack Dalrymple is planning to do to make it safer.
