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Oil Boom Transforming Rural North Dakota


Oil Boom Transforming Rural North Dakota
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A relatively new drilling technology that allows oil to be extracted from the earth through a process called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has brought a flood of development to rural towns situated on the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, the development brings risks and rewards.

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