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After fracking test launched on North Slope, company presses ahead to drill two new wells

By Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News August 22, 2017

A unique effort to test the benefits of hydraulic fracturing on the North Slope is still underway, but the focus is shifting away from a well that’s already been drilled to new sites 25 miles to the west.

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