Natural gas flared as waste is a new sight on the Dakota prairie, where fracking - a way of extracting hard-to-reach oil - and directional drilling have sparked a boom. © Eugene Richards /National Geographic
Hour 1: What are the potential risks and rewards from new oil extraction methods like fracking? We’ll explore the North Dakota oil boom this hour with Edwin Dobb, whose current National Geographic Magazine cover story is “The New Oil Landscape.”
