Wednesday 7 January 2015

Adventures in Mapmaking: Mapping a Fracking Boom in North Dakota

Adventures in Mapmaking: Mapping a Fracking Boom in North Dakota

As a journalist digging into the long-term potential for shale oil—how much oil it might supply, and at what economic and environmental costs—I wanted to create a map showing the extent of this drilling boom to help me look for trends. In this post, I’ll explain how I did that.


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from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/42152b55/sc/22/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A150C0A10Cadventures0Emapmaking0Emapping0Efracking0Eboom0Enorth0Edakota0C/story01.htm

via Science News

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