Tag: North Dakota
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How Fracking Fuels Prostitution and Organized Crime in Bakken Shale Region
From a fiery oil train crash in December, crude oil spill in September and growing concerns of flared natural gas, North Dakota continues to make headlines. Yesterday, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition report, Booming Oil Fields May Be Giving Sex Trafficking a Boost, shows how drinking, drugs, prostitution and organized crime are major concerns in the Bakken…
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SkyTruth Tracks Fracking From the Edge of Space
For the past year, our satellite monitoring of infrared data from around the world has detected immense amounts of light and heat coming from natural gas flares in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale …
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Beyond Keystone XL: Three Controversial Pipeline Proposals
“We’ve so narrowly focused on Keystone that a lot of these other projects aren’t getting the scrutiny they probably need.”
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Monsanto’s GMO ‘Agent Orange’ Crops Already Planted in North Dakota
Monsanto is planning to offer financial incentives to farmers to spray additional types of herbicides. And if soybean growers don’t adopt the new dicamba seeds, their conventional (or even their RoundUp-Ready) soy will be threatened, as dicamba drifts over from their neighbors’ fields. So they’ll pretty much have to get with the dicamba program.
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Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age
To survive this era, humanity must become much smarter about this new kind of energy and then take the steps necessary to compress the third carbon era and hasten in the Age of Renewables before we burn ourselves off this planet.