TONY EASTLEY: While much of the economy in the United States is emerging slowly from the long recession, one area of activity - the energy sector - is booming.
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking to extract coal seam gas is creating tens of thousands of jobs and fuelling America's dreams of energy self sufficiency, but some fear the price of fracking is already too high.
North America correspondent Michael Brissenden reports from a once sleepy town in North Dakota.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Just over 18 months ago Watford City had a population of just over 1,000 people and like much of the rest of this largely rural border state, this town was continuing a long slow decline.
Today the population is 6,500 and growing fast. Even Watford City's development chief Gene Veeder is stunned.
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking to extract coal seam gas is creating tens of thousands of jobs and fuelling America's dreams of energy self sufficiency, but some fear the price of fracking is already too high.
North America correspondent Michael Brissenden reports from a once sleepy town in North Dakota.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Just over 18 months ago Watford City had a population of just over 1,000 people and like much of the rest of this largely rural border state, this town was continuing a long slow decline.
Today the population is 6,500 and growing fast. Even Watford City's development chief Gene Veeder is stunned.
Tony Eastley
ABC AM
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