onearth: North Dakota just passed Alaska to become the second-largest oil-producing state in the country. Good for the local economy (at least while the boom lasts), but not so good for public health, crime rates, water use, air pollution, and the social fabric. Read about what happens when a small town turns boomtown in our special reports: In North Dakota and Nationwide, A Boom in Health Problems Accompanies Fracking and Growing Pains: Scenes from the North Dakota Drilling Boom HIGH RES

onearth:

North Dakota just passed Alaska to become the second-largest oil-producing state in the country. Good for the local economy (at least while the boom lasts), but not so good for public health, crime rates, water use, air pollution, and the social fabric. Read about what happens when a small town turns boomtown in our special reports:

In North Dakota and Nationwide, A Boom in Health Problems Accompanies Fracking

and

Growing Pains: Scenes from the North Dakota Drilling Boom

∞  05/24/12 at 04:01pm via onearth
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