Oil in North Dakota Brings Job Boom and Burdens
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Some hope the oil industry will prompt business and workers to return to the state, where the population peaked in 1930.
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The absolute price of oil has reached a new high. The growth     of the economies in China, India and the rest of Asia are increasing the demand     for oil. There are production problems in Venezuela (strikes and sabotage), Norway (strikes), Nigeria (civil war), Iraq (sabotage) and Russia (internal politics). Hurricane Ivan and other hurricanes this year disrupted     production in the Gulf of Mexico and transportation of oil in the Atlantic.     In the next decade Eastern Europe will also require more oil to feed its growing economies. The price of crude oil has led to     prices of above $55 a barrel and lifted heating oil to a record and     natural gas to a 20-month high. Though prices may eventually fall a bit, they are likely to remain higher than we were once     accustomed.    However, all is not gloom and doom.
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As job growth has picked up in many areas of the country, employment has continued to falter in some crucial battleground states.
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By JEANNETTE J. LEE  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne expressed confidence in an upcoming oil lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska when he visited the North Slope last week.
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VANKOR FIELD, Russia  - Half a century ago, Josef Stalin banished his foes to labor camps in East Siberia. Now volunteers are lining up to drill the frozen wastelands for their vast reserves of oil.
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Oil prices surged on Wednesday as U.S.  government reported a fall in heating oil stocks and cold  weather gripped the U.S. Northeast, the world's biggest heating  fuel market.
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A third of the countryâs oil refineries have reported disruptions like fires, power failures, leaks, spills and breakdowns this year.
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Driven by an unprecedented surge in demand, oil prices reached a long-awaited symbolic milestone.
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An oil strike near Titusville, Pennsylvania, results in the first commercially viable well, and signals the beginning of Big Oil in the United States.
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Hyperion Resources, a closely held Dallas investment firm, said it might build an oil refinery in South Dakota to capitalize on record gasoline prices.
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Driven by an unprecedented surge in demand, oil prices crossed a long-awaited symbolic milestone.
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In Texas, home to some of the  world's biggest oil companies, you might think the case for  renewable energy would be tough to make. As it happened it was  tough, but not impossible.
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Western oil companies are running out of likely places to look, and significant finds are becoming rarer.
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At a time when the nation is chafing at its dependence on foreign oil, it is becoming clear that the United States may be headed for the same situation with natural gas.
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Oil prices got battered again on  Friday, bringing this week's slide to nearly 14 percent as warm  weather in the U.S. Northeast and disappointing U.S. jobs data  darkened prospects for energy demand.
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The sales of more than a million acres of timberland in Northern Michigan have caused many people to worry about their jobs and their ability to hunt and fish.
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Record-setting natural gas and oil prices are teaming up to create a winter of discontent for many households. With crude oil breaking $50 a barrel and continuing to climb, it is time to consider how to offset