Just in time for football season, we’ve created a mock league you can follow based on the country’s top shale plays. All you have to do is visit Canary’s Facebook page each week to see how these match-ups turn out, and return to this site to check out your favorite plays’ football sta

Catch a glimpse of what you missed from “North Dakota Shale Surge ” Up for Consideration: A look at the benefits and growing pains of a record-setting oil surge that impacts nearly every facet of life in North Dakota. The Skinny: In 2001, North Dakota was languishing as the 38th conte

From “man camps” to mansions, the impact of shale drilling is spilling over into the US residential market.  While the rest of the country creeps slowly out of the worst housing bust since the 1930s, the comeback is significantly more robust in some small, formerly stagnant cities lik

Bakken DDS shows the extent of shale drilling in the state. Surging Oil Production North Dakota is the nation’s second largest oil-producing state, playing second fiddle only to Texas after surpassing Alaska and California in early 2012 due to its surge in shale production.  To put th