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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Thu May 14, 2015, 11:00 AM May 2015

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North Dakota regulators are finally cracking down on excessive, wasteful flaring http://skytruth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e8a012de013399ca3907e3133&id=6290af2ffa&e=4f946530e5 of natural gas from oil wells. We've worked to provide daylight on this issue in a variety of ways, including our global flaring map and dataset. http://skytruth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e8a012de013399ca3907e3133&id=0e4352d33d&e=4f946530e5

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North Dakota's flaring of natural gas excessive (Original Post) Panich52 May 2015 OP

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1. The have only been doing it since the beginning, because it costs too much to pipe it from the wells

Thu May 14, 2015, 11:15 AM

May 2015

to storage facilities.
Translation: Selling it would cause the price of natural gas to drop, cutting into profits.