The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess

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By Justin MikulkaAug 8, 2020, 12:00 pm376 pts
Read time: 12 mins More than a decade ago, fracking took off in the Bakken shale of North Dakota and Montana, but the oil rush that followed has resulted in major environmental damage, risky oil transportation without regulation, pipeline permitting issues, and failure to produce profits. Now, after all of…

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