Sentences with phrase «bakken oil boom»

Taylor speaks regularly around the country about issues related to fracking and the Bakken oil boom and is a fellow at the Black Earth Institute.

Not exact matches

But oil is still far cheaper than at the peak of the previous eight - year boom that began in 2006 North Dakota's Bakken oil patch and supercharged the city of Williston.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has written to President Obama requesting immediate action to enhance rail safety as the state experiences a boom in rail transport of explosive Bakken crude oil.

The oil boom has brought thousands of new residents to the town, almost all of whom work in the Bakken oil fields in Montana and North Dakota.

With oil prices now below $ 50 a barrel, I think it's safe to say that TV has missed its chance to come up with a relevant, compelling drama about the Bakken shale boom and the fascinating rush mentality it brought to small cities and towns in North Dakota and eastern Montana.

Crude oil is the fastest growing category of hazardous shipments on North American rails because of limited pipeline capacity for booming Bakken production.

The rising pressure for rail shipments was explored in depth earlier this year in «Busting Bottlenecks in the Bakken,» an article in Fed Gazette, a publication of the Minnesota Federal Reserve (yes, weird, but it's a thorough, interesting piece) and in this Christian Science Monitor story: «Pipelines can't keep up with North American oil boom.»

I hope you'll read «Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North DakoOil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakooil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakooil fields in North Dakota.

On Twitter, Jeff Tollefson, a reporter for Nature who's written on pollution from America's shale boom, pointed to the Bakken oil fields as illustrating why tighter rules for existing industry facilities is vital:

«The Bakken boom is a perfect example of how new and improved technology is allowing industry to tap previously inaccessible or unknown energy resources to create jobs, decrease our dependence on foreign oil and grow our economy.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued an unprecedented safety alert on the transport of hydraulically fractured oil from North Dakota's booming Bakken oil fields that could also cool Canada's unconventional oil rush.

Instead of transporting heavy crude from Canada's tar sands, the pipeline would tap into the booming Bakken oil fields of Montana and North Dakota.

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, thanks to the Bakken formation and the oil boom, trucking and other transportation services related to the oil and natural gas industries have nudged North Dakota's unemployment rate to an all - time low of 2.6 percent.

Close to Canada, North Dakota has a booming economy due to the Bakken oil shale fields located in the western half of the state.

«The demand for housing in the Williston area has increased exponentially as the Bakken region of North Dakota experiences a major oil boom.