While much of the rest of the nation is still struggling to recover from the 2007-2008 recession, the fracking boom in North Dakota has been a job-creating machine. The state is now the nation’s ...

A new report by Abe Sauer in The Awl pulls back the curtain on the oil industry's quiet but quick takeover of North Dakota. In explaining the apocalyptic sight of "Dakota candles" illuminating the ...

Rules recently proposed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) concerning the capture of natural gas released as a by-product of oil production on public lands in North Dakota threatens to limit ...

Fracking in western North Dakota has produced no profits and negative return on investment since 2014. Thus, there is economic justification for diversification of energy production in North Dakota.

At times the opponents of fracking seem so desperate to manufacture ugly headlines about it that they draw ludicrous conclusions from correlations. For instance, a year ago the National Bureau of ...

It seems that in our search for oil and gas, we don’t do anything half-way. Such is the case with North Dakota. While there is no question that fracking has given a huge boost to the state’s economy, ...

Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Few technical terms carry as much ambiguity or provoke as much confusion as ...

In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American energy boom, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting." It's not that they lack ...

The Environmental Protection Agency dinged a North Dakota fracking company on Friday for $2.1 million for contributing to smog. The driller, Slawson Exploration Co., agreed to pay the hefty fine in a ...