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Boom: North America’s Explosive Oil-by-Rail Problem
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InsideClimate News | A year and a half after a deadly explosion in Canada, the transportation of crude oil on railroads is still weakly regulated.
Bakken
Women In The Oil Patch: Unsafe, Or Just Uncomfortable?
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Boom towns have never been friendly places for women. After all, they are inhabited primarily by young men who go there in droves looking for jobs. But are they unsafe, or just uncomfortable?
Audio
Tribe At A Crossroads: An Election And An Oil Boom
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One third of the oil produced in North Dakota comes from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Whoever wins the election for tribal chairman will have a lot of tough decisions to make about how to regulate oil development and make sure everyone benefits from the boom.
Inside Energy News
Inside The Boom: Sleeping In My Car
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I was up on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota last week doing some reporting on how the oil boom is influencing the election for tribal chairman there. I was kind of winging it and didn’t have a plan of where to stay that night. I knew it might be hard to find a hotel room, but figured there’d probably be space in the tribally-owned casino. Wrong. Every single hotel in New Town was full.
Making Energy
Bakken Oil Trends Data Dive: The Importance Of The Long View
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To help make sense of the jarring ugliness of real-world data, it’s helpful to look at long-term trends, where meaning emerges from the chaos.
Making Energy
IE Questions: Where Is The Bottom Of The (Oil) Barrel Price Fall?
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Oil production hinges on one big assumption: Companies extracting oil can make money. When does that stop being true?
Audio
Where Do Falling Oil Prices Hurt Most?
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In states like North Dakota and Wyoming, falling oil prices have big implications, for both industry and state budgets.
Inside Energy News
Pipeline Permitting Delays In North Dakota
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Permitting delays mean it is taking a long time to build oil and gas pipelines out of North Dakota.
Inside Energy News
Colorado State Of Mind: Oil And Gas Worker Safety
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The oil and gas industry is six times deadlier than other U.S. jobs. On Colorado State Of Mind, Jordan Wirfs-Brock discusses the differences between safety practices in Wyoming and North Dakota and actions that could make the industry less dangerous.
