{"id":9612,"date":"2012-01-16T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=9612"},"modified":"2015-11-01T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:15:29","slug":"grand-forks-herald-on-fracking-forget-the-constitution-north-dakota-should-be-like-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/01\/grand-forks-herald-on-fracking-forget-the-constitution-north-dakota-should-be-like-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Forks Herald on Fracking: Forget the Constitution, North Dakota should be like Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best defense against “federal regulators overreach” should be the Tenth Amendment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Grand Forks Herald<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/event\/article\/id\/226704\/\">editorializes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In its dispute with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over air pollution, North Dakota has an ace in the hole: the state\u2019s clean air. The American Lung Association\u2019s most recent report card on air quality gave North Dakota all A\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>So, when state regulators say they\u2019re doing a good job, North Dakotans\u2019 own eyes and ears back the claims up.<\/p>\n<p>Can the same be said for fracking rules?<\/p>\n<p>No. And over the months to come, the North Dakota Industrial Commission should act decisively to change that answer to yes.<\/p>\n<p>That means taking strong action on a lineup of issues, including new and unfamiliar concerns such as the processing of radioactive drilling waste. Because solid, no-nonsense and resolutely enforced rules are North Dakota\u2019s best defense against federal regulators\u2019 overreach.<\/p>\n<p>Given that North Dakota\u2019s economy had languished for so long, it\u2019s understandable that the state took pains not to scare oil companies away. <strong>So, while Norway essentially bans the flaring or burning off of natural gas from oil wells, North Dakota permits it \u2014 and as a result, 30 percent of the gas produced in the state is flared<\/strong>…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/event\/article\/id\/226704\/\">Read the entire editorial.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best defense against “federal regulators overreach” should be the Tenth Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-2v2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}