North Dakota swimming in oil

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Did you?

 

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No. But I would.

 

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And Rick, I have a new favourite gif avatar.

Back to all this talk about the Dakotas and black gold.

 

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Shouldn't it be "swimming IN oil?"

 

Best time to see the PG is probably in September. Skeeters and the tourists are both gone and it (generally) hasn't started snowing yet.

 

I'm sure the boom is great for some, but it honestly sounds like a depressing place to live.

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/greetings-from-williston-north-dakota-20120713

 

It's been about two years since I left, and it wasn't *that* bad then if you were actually living in town and not in a man camp. The paper got us an incredible deal (by Williston standards) on our apartment.

But I've heard that right around the time we left is when it the critical mass was reached, so to speak, and it's gotten bad enough that I'm glad we don't live there anymore. I wouldn't feel like my wife was safe there anymore.

 

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Lars .....

 

This NASA pic always floors me.



It's the lights of natural-gas flares burning as a result of the drilling, which by the estimate of one environmentalist, results in the waste of gas that could heat 500,000 homes per day.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark

 

I don't know that it's as bad as all that. I was talking to Amy Dalrymple, the Forum Communications reporter in Williston, and she, as well as the Enbridge and North Dakota Oil Can reps, said they feel perfectly safe. Amy said not a day goes by she's not called m'am.

She added that she feels the way Williston is portrayed in the national media represents doesn't show the whole picture. She cited a recent (possibly NYT?) story that focused on women there, saying the reporter had only talked to women who worked/frequented bars/truck stops and things like that. Not a good cross-section of the entire community at all.

She did point out the transiency of the whole place, saying she'd quote a guy for a story and then go back the next day for a follow-up and he'd be gone.

 

There are women in North Dakota who don't frequent bars and truck stops?