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" It&amp;#039;s apparently fracking, or at least that&amp;#039;s what we might infer from Gallup&amp;#039;s annual poll ranking states by well-being: The Bakken oil boom, which has led to an influx of residents to the Peace Garden State, may have contributed to these ratings, he said, though the Gallup data isn&amp;#039;t designed to analyze the causes of changes in well-being. Low unemployment caused by the boom could contribute to well-being in the form of financial security or access to health insurance, Witters said. And yeah, it&amp;#039;s not as if fracking is all bad. But it&amp;#039;s also hard to endorse when you find out it sets faucet water on fire, and learn natural gas actually goes up in flames a lot, or when you see photos of sad North Dakotans, and read about spills, of course. Having read those things and having never been there, I have to believe that North Dakota is happy for other reasons that have nothing to do with fracking. This is the first time Hawaii&amp;#039;s been beaten in the ranking, by the way. What could irresponsible fracking take away from North Dakota?        Just all of that. This post originally published on Just Now Ago. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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