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3 Industries Thriving From Record-Low Natural Gas Prices
Low natural gas prices aren't bad for everyone. A few other industries are seeing enormous boosts with cheap, readily available natural gas. 
Don't Frack Me Up: Correcting Misinformation On Hydraulic Fracturing
Forbes sets the record straight with facts about fracking, not playing on emotion like many of the frac-tivists do.
Energy plays key role in Obama's State of the Union
For the third year in a row energy played a central role in President Obama's State of the Union address, with the president leaning hard this year on the twin themes of increased domestic oil and gas production and the need to invest more in renewable sources.
State to study natural gas production trends
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's natural gas production, which has been rising in step with its booming oil output, may require more pipeline capacity to carry the fuel to markets, a state official says.
Rules approved to cut North Dakota oil waste pits, disclose frack chemicals
North Dakota oil regulators on Monday endorsed new rules aimed at reducing the number of oil waste disposal pits and disclosing the chemical makeup of fluids pumped underground to coax oil to the surface.
Hoeven explains legislation to get pipeline approved
Congress has the authority to vote for approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, according to a nonpartisan legal analysis released last week.
The Congressional Research Service, which provides policy and legal analysis to committees and members of Congress, released its legal analysis on the authority of Congress to regulate foreign commerce late Friday.
Canada looks at alternatives to nixed US pipeline
TORONTO (AP) - Canada is looking at alternatives for exporting its oil since U.S. President Barack Obama announced he was blocking a pipeline from Alberta to Texas.
Oil patch generating innovative solutions
Who would have thought that disposing of wastewater from small and large man camps would be a problem? But consider: As nearly 510,000 barrels of oil a day are produced in the state's oil patch, workers create another 500,000 gallons of sewer water with only limited means to process or get rid of it.
