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Shales Spark Significant Great Plains, Texas Population Growth

Shales Spark Significant Great Plains, Texas Population Growth

The domestic oil and natural gas development boom tied to the run on shale targets has led to some surprising results in the U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released on Thursday. According to the government agency, “numerous metropolitan statistical areas, micropolitan statistical areas and counties that were among the fastest-growing last year were located in, or at least near, the Great Plains and West Texas.”

March 18, 2013