The fracking boom is bringing in a surge of development — and tax revenue — to North Dakota. Now conservationists have a plan use some of that growth to protect the environment.
Britain's government supports fracking as a source of cheap gas and jobs but his plans are meeting stiff resistance in the countryside, where New Age protesters and rich conservative country-dwellers want none of it.
The 94-year-old oil pioneer who changed the face of the energy industry with his fracking procedure died today. He gave his final interview to Marketplace's Scott Tong.