There are forces looking to undermine North Dakota’s oil boom
The Energy Revolution and Its Discontents
 | By Heritage Foundation Lachlan Markay (Bio and Archives) Tuesday, July 3, 2012 | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us |
With all the gloomy economic news coming out of late, one bright spot flew under the radar last week: the United States is poised to be the proverbial center of the energy universe.
A recent study by Harvard Research Fellow Leonardo Maugeri found that the United States’ incredible shale reserves represent “the most important revolution in the oil sector in decades.”
Thanks to the technological revolution brought about by the combined use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the U.S. is now exploiting its huge and virtually untouched shale and tight oil fields, whose production – although still in its infancy – is already skyrocketing in North Dakota and Texas.
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