Crude production from the Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota could rise by another 50-100% in the next three years, and not start to decline until 2020 or even 2025, according to official projections from the North Dakota Oil and Gas Division. Read full article
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Nov 23rd, 2012 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0By 2050, North Dakota could still be producing as much as 650-950,000 barrels of oil per day.
Nov 24th, 2012 - 12:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0We'll have reached peak oil by then, surely. And have had plenty time to get our act together on renewables, if we pull the finger out...
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Nov 24th, 2012 - 04:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0ND has the potential for energy independence for the US, subject only to onerous governmental regulations. Other states have much to learn from ND including WA and MN where economic growth is strangled by over regulation. It is no wonder that so many in ND are from the most regulated states in the Union. Does ND present a modern day reason to secede before becoming more infected by D.C.?
Nov 24th, 2012 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0PLEASE secede ND, take SD, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi wit you.
Nov 24th, 2012 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sincerely, the rich Blue states that give close to double what they get to the red states through the fed gov.
#5 Maybe the Federal government needs to stop taking and redistributing.
Nov 25th, 2012 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#3....you want to read more USA news, which is not the mission of Mercos Press.....go to
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Nov 27th, 2012 - 12:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0While we have the freedom to tell a politician to go fuck off. as a parent we would never allow our children to tell us that. Freedom of sppech here is determined by the owner of this site.
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