North Dakota oil producers are wasting billions of cubic feet of natural gas

        May 27, 2019 Los Angeles Times | United States | fossil fuels: natural gas

North Dakota drillers continue to burn off excess natural gas in the Bakken Formation, 5 years after state laws limited the practice to 15% by 2016 (10% by 2020). A record 2.8 billion cubic feet per day was extracted in March 2019, 20% of it flared, increasing harmful and wasteful emissions. North Dakota is the second biggest U.S. oil producer after Texas.