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Rural West Initiative Story on NPR: "Oil Boom Puts Strain On North Dakota Towns"
December 2, 2011
NPR's "Morning Edition", Dec. 2, 2011
Radio Report by Rural West Initiative Director John McChesney:
North Dakota has a low 3.5 percent unemployment rate and a state budget with a billion dollar surplus. That's because of a major oil boom in the western part of the state, a discovery of at least 2 billion barrels to be gained by fracking — the controversial process of injecting fluid deep into underground rock formations to force the oil out.
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North Dakota has a low 3.5 percent unemployment rate and a state budget with a billion dollar surplus. That's because of a major oil boom in the western part of the state, a discovery of at least 2 billion barrels to be gained by fracking — the controversial process of injecting fluid deep into underground rock formations to force the oil out.
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