Resource May 30, 2014

Oil and Gas Development at Theodore Roosevelt National Park

In May 2014, the National Parks Conservation Association partnered with FracTracker to record the impacts of oil and gas development on North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

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Oil and Gas Photos in North Dakota

The FracTracker Alliance (FTA) and National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) arranged a joint data collection trip to North Dakota in May 2014.

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Using a new Mobile App developed by FracTracker, local volunteers spend two days driving are the North, South and Elkhorn Units of the park, recording images of wells, flares, oil trucks, trains, drilling rigs, pipelines, and other products of the boom on the Bakken.

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