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back all the money i made off of it you know. going to happen. someday you know on oil is all pumped out of the ground they will come back here and level it all out and turn it back into farmland but that's you know like i say it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes it would be out of mind for sure. you have nothing to say about where. i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest
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but they don't have to listen to you don't i mean you have no legal say in it put it that way so yeah they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission for all industry follows the proper practices and i don't think we'll have a problem but there's always that if me if they don't then we could have an issue in the biggest issue would be to to ground water as i see it when we live out here in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our homes so if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. as a lot of fracturing job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and you know the chemicals because they use acid is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so. so when i point out
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that often their ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill any kind of living organism of any car it kills it because one of our guy has. got some of it on his hands and i and i disturb just swallow his hand and we will because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is it's is wrong in the water. for this or it is as is the nobody drinks the water out of iron stepfather from north dakota i think everybody drank so bottled water you know it's just it's just like if you ever. drop water on the out of the faucet night is nasty it's pretty nasty when we're fracking no oil or grease is allowed to be spilled on the ground if you make an a mistake and you drop one cup you have to clean it up and take it away with you
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it's not polluting north dakota the air is clean the water is clean. this is privately owned land this is not government land any less the environmental protection agency finds scientific proof that there is real pollution going on they won't be able to shut this down. and so far there is no proof. there's just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures tracking. down how to paint is advocating his notion in attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely. the question is being raised and grabs the attention of anti fracking groups. one thing is certain the practice of a trial is tracking to be as large quantities of drinking water.
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chan young is the owner of the clip services a company that facilitates the shipping of water for fracking through pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. these things are used to hold water for the fracking whole thirty five thousand barrels and so they'll pump water from one to the other until eventually it's over to the frac and down the hole. it's fresh water all the water that run in here is coming out of the city water line so it's all clean water. you know that's been millions of dollars on water for one is one of the biggest expenses one of these wells is the fresh. one the water after the frac they just lot back out of the ground and they haul it off to a disposal facility. right here this is called a flare natural gas comes up with the oil and so they have to get rid of it so
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they just burn it off right here. comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters in there it separates the oil the water in the guess this site here produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with a truck intricate out to get to disposal facilities. keith there live sixty miles out of williston on fort berthold reservation for black coal flows freely and accounts for one quarter north dakota's production. this oil field isn't all that good for everybody we have secured land here we have virgin land here and now there's oil rolled oil fields. at night some of these trucks to dry. along gravel road they don't poison. rock in
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water it's all water logged the things into the ditch. because they're too lazy to drive to the dump station and that is going into our river going into our critics when into our spot on. the fields not in the water but it is you know they're not telling the truth i have twenty nine grandchildren i want them to enjoy this river where i do don't want them to walk in the water i want them to catch a fish you can eat you know want to grow garden do would have to worry about poison in the planet i want to have plants with better medicine if not before and now because of the things that are in the water. oil workers are best suited to judge the eventual pollution is caused by fracking. unfortunately this problem is not a priority they are in survival mode first and foremost they are in need of work.
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during the journey phase radioactive to prepare up back to the surface is a major risk for workers and the environment some companies clearly are not concerned and do not hesitate to suppose that these toxic materials into wild dumps . special teams are left to ship them back to suitable treatment say it's. in north dakota no one with an oil rich piece of land will tell you that fracking could be an environmental hazard. doing so could jeopardize one of the best ways to get rich quick. of course all the different stories have been in rhetoric christmas two thousand and fourteen all science turned red thanks to saudi arabia the staggering fall of the price per barrel of oil will put it in and the moment if you saw the u.s. rise in the first produces of crude oil based the shale oil.
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we can feel the concern brought by the price cuts everywhere and will is to now shows the sides of a boom town going bust. people in this town are very very suspicious of oil booms because that almost always comes with a large bust and the bust to be rather difficult and now that i'm a part of this town i'm a little bit worried because we're seeing gas prices start to drop down and i'm wondering what's going to happen to my business because we have a message here. january two thousand and fifteen the price per barrel fell below the crucial fifty dollars mark. in this little town here west and is a major major reason why the price of oil around the world is coming down because the opec countries saudi arabia leading them there they're they're very scared by the. developments in hydraulic fracturing they know that the united states in the
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past five years went from importing something like sixty percent of the oil that we use down to thirty percent and that is a direct result of the hydraulic fracturing that's taken place like here and williston in the bach and in other areas they want to put these companies out of business. even if circumstances are worrisome these days i think he has not stopped after ten thousand the well as we still need to extract the millions of barrels lying beneath the bokken. this situation brings happiness to the one person for serious companies but it is devastating to the oil workers who are no longer needed they're thrown out into the streets without pity they must decide whether to go back home or stay liston looking for new jobs. in february twenty fifteen want one of my coworkers i worked with he calmly and he said managers laid everybody else. he's in and told everybody to go to
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a room get all the stuff in get out and this will two o'clock in the morning at night in february in the winter. a man can say emptied out enclosed went into the next. these dilapidated barracks will probably pollute the landscape for eight years to come. construction sites for abandoned by the dozen and left to rest and to keep. house in construction began at the peak of the list is now nearly complete.
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occupied in part by survivors of the the neighborhood seems sadly empty. even with the downturn in the economy. boil prices. i can still raise more money than i can back home. just. now as much they're used to. i consider myself fortunate because i still have a job as talk no friend just yesterday he got laid off so he's got to go back to louisiana to find find work. because there are not too many people hiring.
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we try to deconstruct all these manipulated i cut series showing the world that islam is a religion any it's a peaceful religion and it's possible to be a practicing muslim and so believe that the koran is the word of god and at the same time via a member of secular societies it is possible. he . exists is hard in kentucky the. oldest rhythm boy sees the world in st danny's only known. in a coma any city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was assured that there was a laugh to see these people the survivors of
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a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. it's hard. good money rolls off them it won't. help but children. are true grit their very work.
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it's just something that has to be done. you know that it's just like this job to you know two nights ago i wanted to go home i was tired. but. the roof was high tanks we had to haul the water otherwise to the well shut down and. people get upset so. you do what you have to do. in the oil. adults has slowed down though but still steady and you know
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doing just well doing three jobs every day of the week. the donors show up it's work about sixty eight hours. in the day for the guy doing construction maybe five or six. and this he's now working out three or four making the sandwiches and. i read this place to adam for only three hundred fifty dollars a month he has the whole downstairs to himself. which is a little bit messy. claimed. that he had to
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leave california because there's no jobs why is there no jobs there's too many mexicans who do the job i was doing for half the price. you know how many donuts oh. wow. i've done more for. big orders twenty four hour. i'm encouraging out i'm to save some money. so that he can move his family here and put a deposit first and last month's rent on an apartment is a good father he misses a little girl you know. missing. when
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oil reached twenty nine dollars a barrel we weren't doing anything march was a bad month but now it's suddenly picked up to forty dollars a barrel and we're busy again the companies have done so much cost cutting and efficiency that if the price goes to fifty it will be like it used to be eighty. the rig counts the number of rigs drilling new holes in the ground has gone way down from over two hundred to i think the thirty five rigs active in the block and . as time goes on without new wells being drilled and fret our one point one million barrels a day will go down naturally slowly in some point in the two to five years there will be a supply and demand reversal whereas now we're oversupplied will be under supply and the price will shoot up. between now and then it will go like this and at some
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point it will go up. and if the price go ever goes to one hundred and it will some day north dakota will be crawling with workers looking for housing and there will be a huge labor shortage the companies will be throwing money at us. now we're mostly working for folks who have oil rigs oil pumps on their land and they have those monthly checks coming in from the old companies and they're spending money on their homes. or lot of people have disappeared out here gone back home i guess i know some are gone back to bozeman big sky erika's constructions doing ok there some went back to minneapolis some to idaho but yeah a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore they're all gone just slow down too much they lost their jobs got laid off so couldn't put in the hours a lot of families to
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a lot of guys in the oil business the higher ups the guys making more money they've gone to south america in the middle east so they'll be back i guess someday but. so that's the general process. sort of her cleaning the litter. i could buy a house and i did i could stay in a very nice apartment but i don't need it and i have very low overhead and i like it that way and i don't have a lot of needs. so this is stuff. is just this was
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a born garage and there was a snow storm and heavy snow storm about three years ago i suppose and the snow load on the roof caused the roof to collapse so anyway it's kind of an open air garage and. i. have a hose hooked up in there and i wash it off and rick. thank . you the oil industry has changed dramatically and i don't like to see that i see companies going out of business and people being fired and laid off and loading up a u.-haul trailers and heading out of town and it's sad. it hasn't really affected me because. we service the infrastructure that has been built and once that infrastructure is built it still needs to be maintained i'm very
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over forty years that i've been with most. used to be far far or who are interested in girls. that like politics i've come to realize well politics is a scam girls are just problems. i mean. so i stay away from both of. this gas station over here we used to deliver to the. three four dozen donuts last week they quit the order altogether because nobody was coming in to i don't so. it
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was one more. always get this one and keep on going around the corner. because you want to go and get the best that. you should frank de sac. cindy the owner of the or the manager of the store there. her business is down so far that she's had to. take on a second job now so she soles cosmetics to women here in the oil field.
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we gave a lot to come up here but we thought it was going to be best for our family we thought the oil boom would be here for at least another fifteen years and that we would be able to. be able to make enough money to pay for our kids to go to college . the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with.
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