<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14px"><div>The News-Gazette says that if Illinois doesn't get on board with fracking, other states will. Here's an excerpt from an article by Laura Gottesdiener about North Dakota:</div><div><br></div><div>"Now, six years later, the region displays all the classic contemporary markers of hell: toxic flames that burn around the clock; ink-black smoke billowing from 18-wheelers; intermittent explosions caused by lightning striking the super-conductive wastewater tanks that hydraulic fracturing makes a necessity; a massive Walmart; an abundance of meth, crack, and liquor; freezing winters; rents higher than Manhattan; and far, far too many men. To oil companies, however, the field is hallowed ground, one of the few in history to break the million-barrel-a-day benchmark, earning it “a place in the small pantheon of truly elite oil fields,” as
one Reuters market analyst <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/john-kemp/"><font color="#0066cc">wrote</font></a>."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/13/trip-kuwait-prairie-life-inside-boom">A Trip to Kuwait (on the Prairie): Life Inside the Boom</a></div><div class="link-enhancr-attachment link-enhancr-element" id="enhancrCard_0" style='width: 450px; font-family: "Georgia", "Times", "Times New Roman", "serif"; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;' contenteditable="false"><table class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 450px; height: 170px; display: block; position: relative;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr class="link-enhancr-element"><td class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 1px; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(229,
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