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North Dakota seizes initiative in CBR degasification
Written by David Thomas, Canadian Contributing EditorThe vital other shoe in crude by rail reform will drop not in Ottawa or Washington, but in Bismark, N.Dak., where, in the void created by federal inaction, officials are preparing to use state jurisdiction over natural resources to order the degasification of petroleum at the wellhead.