{"id":21600,"date":"2014-02-02T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=319984"},"modified":"2014-02-02T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:43:04","slug":"how-fracking-fuels-prostitution-and-organized-crime-in-bakken-shale-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/how-fracking-fuels-prostitution-and-organized-crime-in-bakken-shale-region\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fracking Fuels Prostitution and Organized Crime in Bakken Shale Region"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ndakotafrack-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ndakotafrack\"><\/p>\n<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/12\/31\/fiery-oil-train-crash-north-dakota\/\" target=\"_blank\">fiery oil train crash<\/a> in December, <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/10\/14\/greenpeace-photos-north-dakota-pipeline-oil-spill\/\" target=\"_blank\">crude oil spill<\/a> in September and growing concerns of <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2012\/03\/09\/north-dakotas-oil-boom-from-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">flared natural gas<\/a>, North Dakota continues to make headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, National Public Radio&#8217;s Weekend Edition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=265698046&amp;m=269924900\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Booming Oil Fields May Be Giving Sex Trafficking a Boost,&nbsp;<\/em>shows how drinking, drugs, prostitution and organized crime are major concerns in the Bakken Shale region of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2012\/12\/05\/fracking-north-dakota\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Dakota<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.org\/p\/energy\/fracking-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">FRACKING<\/a>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner12\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/topnewsbanner121.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[2903,2644,2906,4750],"class_list":["post-21600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-energy","tag-fracking","tag-news","tag-north-dakota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}