Despite media misinformation and Hollywood portrayals like Promised Land, the fact remains that hydraulic fracturing is being done responsibly and is revitalizing local economies
Get the Federal Government Out of the Natural Gas Business
![]() | By Heritage Foundation Amy Payne (Bio and Archives) Monday, February 11, 2013 Comments | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us |
In North Dakota, people have jobs. That state led the nation in job creation last year, and its unemployment rate is only 3.2 percent (compared to the national rate of 7.9 percent). Why?
One word: energy.
As Nicolas Loris, Heritage’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, writes in a forthcoming paper:
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