Fracking
IE Questions: Is Fracking Dangerous?
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With the help of researchers at AirWaterGas and UCAR, we dive into controversial waters to answer the question: Is Fracking Dangerous?
Dakota Access pipeline
Your Most Pressing Dakota Access Pipeline Questions, Answered
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What’s going on with that pipeline in North Dakota? Momentum behind the Dakota Access pipeline protests has been building for months. The 1,200 mile-long pipeline project is controversial, involving many big-picture interests, issues, and plenty of misinformation. You’ve been flooding us with great questions, and we’re answering them.
IE Investigations
North Dakota Oil and Gas Officials Want Corrections To Our Story. Here’s Our Response.
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The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources criticized certain aspects of our story on North Dakota’s oilfield spill problem. Here’s our response.
Audio
State Officials Misrepresent North Dakota’s Spill Problem
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The oilfield spill problem here has been getting worse for years, but state regulators and inspectors have downplayed how bad it really is — and have made it difficult to fact-check their claims.
Audio
In North Dakota, Oilfield Spill Problems Worsen
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In early January, a pipeline was found leaking oilfield wastewater into a creek. It’s estimated to be the worst such spill since the start of the oil boom. An Inside Energy investigation shows North Dakota’s spill problem is getting worse.
Inside Energy News
Basin Boom Means More Spills
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Horizontal drilling and fracking have prompted an oil boom in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, Alisa Barba reported earlier this week. But an increase in drilling — 590 oil wells have been drilled and completed in the Powder River Basin since January of 2009 — has its consequences. Mead Gruver from Associated Press reported yesterday that 2014 has already been the state’s worst year for oil spills since 2009.
Inside Energy News
Safer Oil Transport Not Coming Fast Enough, Say Environmentalist Groups
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Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Transportation over the shipment of crude oil in older railroad tank cars. The lawsuit follows a series of arguments, complaints and regulation changes over the past few months regarding safety rules and industry secrecy, which Inside Energy investigated during the summer.
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Saltwater Spills Leave North Dakota Farmland Sterile For Years
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Saltwater spills are more damaging than oil. And in North Dakota, they’re happening a lot more frequently than they used to.
Inside Energy News
Spills Up In Colorado. Or Not.
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Oil spills, whether they are increasing or not, are not being communicated to local communities
