Pennsylvania and North Dakota are both experiencing energy booms powered by hydraulic fracturing technology. And while drillers are extracting oil, not natural gas, in North Dakota, small communities in both states are both dealing with the same challenges. Among them: how to handle the influx of rig workers – many of them young men with a [...]
The New York Times profiles the men and women – many of them just out of high school – who are migrating to oil boom towns in Montana and North Dakota in search of drilling jobs. Just like in Pennsylvania, communities in the mountain west are rapidly expanding to accommodate drilling rushes powered by hydraulic fracturing. [...]
Before he was a war hero, governor or president, Theodore Roosevelt was a rancher. He spent two years living in North Dakota’s badlands, herding cattle and mourning his wife and mother, who both died on the same day. A century later, historians and environmentalists worry Roosevelt’s secluded ranch is being threatened by North Dakota’s shale [...]
In Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, hydraulic fracturing is used to access natural gas. In North Dakota’s Bakken, they’re fracking for oil. North Dakota’s fracking boom is increasing domestic oil production – it’s now responsible for one in ten domestic barrels produced. Soon, some of that oil will be processed at Sunoco’s Philadelphia refinery. But as the Washington Post [...]
As Governor Corbett and Harrisburg lawmakers try to lure a natural gas processing plant to Beaver County, near Pittsburgh, others seek to revive a shuttered Sunoco refinery in suburban Philadelphia by connecting it to the shale gas boom. The borough of Marcus Hook may be one of the oldest European settlements in the state, stretching [...]
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