and remains a beneficiary of higher oil prices. North Dakota's fossil fuel industry has grown rapidly since the onset of the shale boom and extraction is now 4 percent of state employment.

The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from the earth ... to a number of studies and publications GAO reviewed, shale oil and gas development poses risks to air quality, generally ...

it has to be extracted through other means. Oil can exist in many underground conditions. Some formations contain shale, a rocky and dense substance, or oil sands. This type of oil is referred to ...

Experts warn that the energy sector is not contemplating a boost in production, despite the president’s messages. The country ...

The Center seeks to prevent any oil shale or tar sands development on public lands, including the unacceptable extraction and combustion of oil, the consumption of water and energy attending that ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. Diversified Energy is one of the most interesting upstream companies in ...

Dan Eberhart is CEO of Canary, LLC. Don’t bet against America’s shale producers. Every oil market analyst should know this by now, but many still can’t resist calling an end to the shale boom.

And the Eagle Ford shale is a fairly good example of this. If we use the EIA map of the play you can see that in the North, where the reservoir is about 6,000 ft deep the hydrocarbon is oil ...

The Center seeks to prevent any oil shale or tar sands development on public lands, including the unacceptable extraction and combustion of oil, the consumption of water and energy attending that ...