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i mean you have no legal say in it put it so they can put it wherever they want they don't need any your permission foreign oil industry follows the proper practices 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 do groundwater as i see it when we live are in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our all so if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. i was wrong to fracture in john that's where they pump the sand the fluid and you know the chemicals they use as it is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so so when they pumped out that off in their ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill it any kind of
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living organism of any kind it kills it because of one of our guy has. got some of it on his hands and light and i disturb just swallow his hand we're bad because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is it's is run in the water. for history it is as is and nobody drinks the water out of that stepfather from north dakota i think everybody drank so bottled water you know it just it's just like you never. drank water out of the out of the faucet knight is in this state 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 it's not polluting north. all the air is clean the water is clean. this is
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privately on land this is not government land i mean less the environmental protection agency fines scientific proof that there is real pollution going on they won't be able to shut this down. and suffer are there is no proof. there is just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures tracking. down how deep it is advocating this notion and it attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely. the question is me raised to express the intention of anti-fashion groups. one thing is certain the practice of hydraulic fracking demands large quantities of drinking water. ten young is the owner of eclipse services
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a company that facilitates the shipping of water for fracking through pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. these things through the use 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 pumped over to the frac and down the hole. it's fresh water all that water thrown 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 frac is one of the biggest expenses one of these wells the pressure. on the water after the frac they just log back out of the ground and they all went 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 the oil comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters and there it separates the oil the water in the guess this site your produces more water than what they can pipeline out of here so i have to come in with a truck intricate out to get that disposal facility. keast there live sixty miles out of the list and on fort berthold reservation for black gold flows freely and accounts for one quarter of north dakota's production. of this oil field isn't all that good for everybody we have secured land and we have virgin land here and now there's oil roll of oil fields. at night time some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. rocking water it's all water the all the things into the ditch. because
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they're too lazy to drive to the dump station and that it's going into our river going into our creeks it's going into our stock pond. this is 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 didn't want them to walk in the water one can to catch a fish you can eat no one to grow a garden and to do would have to worry about poisoning the planet i want to have plants with better medicine that's 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 primary they are in survival mode first and foremost they are in need of work.
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during the drilling 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 you know hesitate to suppose of these toxic materials into wild dumps . specially teams are left to ship them back to suitable treatment so 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 beautiful 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 of euphoria saw the us rise in the first producers of crude oil based the shale.
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we can feel the concern brought by the price cut everywhere and will is to now shows the science 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 they're out there they're very scared by the. developments in hydraulic fracturing. they know that the united states in
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the 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 box and in a 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 actually taking ten thousand wells we still need to extract the millions of barrels lying beneath the pocket. 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 work with he calmly and he said manages late everybody oh. he's in and told everybody to go to a room get all a stuff in get out and there's
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a two o'clock in the morning at night in february in the winter. man can't emptied out enclosed from one day to 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. housing construction began at the peak of the realest boom is now nearly complete. occupied in part by survivors of the. the neighborhood seems sadly empty.
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even with the downturn in the economy but boyle prices. i can still be more money than i came back home. just. now as much as they used to. i consider myself fortunate because i still have a job just 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 a.
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same downstream you know the ancient world if you live upstream you had better off in here because all the all the garbage and everything flows downstream and in the financial world if you live in proximity to where the money's being printed the could still in effect is meaning that you get first use of that money and then compounds on a rate me you get a compound rate of return based on for a few time is on your side your downstream time is working against you because you end up with a savings account paying zero percent or you have no wages nor year behind inflation current. credit.
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just touch them understand statistics not their mashed old. destructive president and please introduce more to students. the butchery of producers to those listening to snoop on little knew it because that is the girls with you serious supporters to your shoes through should or shouldn't for you should cook door for the one who's deal does the. one else child's seemed wrong but old roles just don't call. me the old yet to say proud disdain comes to advocate and in detroit because betrayal.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. if if if if if. if if if if if. if if if. complete. i. just. it's hard. but i'm. i'm making good money and i'm paying bills off them a while to help my children out and. that.
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my children are very poor. if. it's just something that has to be done. you know it's it's just like this job too you know two nights ago i wanted to go home i was tired. but. there was a high thinks we had to haul the water otherwise the the well set down and. people get upset so. you do what you have to do.
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well i'm not in the oil. adults has slowed down a little bit but still steady and you know i'm doing just well doing three jobs every day of the week. said the donor shop 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.
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i read this place down for only three hundred fifty dollars a month he has the whole downstairs to himself. which is a little bit messy. i claimed. he had to leave california because there's no jobs why is there no jobs there's too many mexicans makes kids who do the same job i was doing for half of the price. you know how many donuts oh. wow. they were twenty four or. have.
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been encouraging out of 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. mr. forward . when 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
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. 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 point it will go up. and if the price go ever goes to one hundred and it will someday. 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
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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 you could put in the hours a lot of families to a lot of guys in the oil business the higher ups the guys making more money they want to south america in the middle east so they'll be back i guess some day but. so that's the general process. sort of her cleaning the litter.
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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. is just this was 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 off and rick. thanks . to the oil industry has changed dramatically and i don't like to see
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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 thankful for that sort of. so tonight we'll have full new people.
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for one of the last minute rush. but it's nice to have the company and actually enjoy. as i said before i've here really outside of. the former girlfriend came up with this times oh you're like the only visitors that i've had here. in the over forty years that i've been with most. used to be far far more who are interested in girls. that like politics i've come to realize well politics is a scam girls are just problems. so i stay away from both of you.
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for. 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 was one more. always get this one and keep on going around the corner. because you're going to go on and get the best that. you should face things.
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cindy the owner of 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 souls cosmetics to women here in the oil field. 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 . they were can dream is changing it's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with.
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to say the boom will come back but if it does it'll be much much more shallow a growth curve. and be nearly. it is. much money and. i don't know. how to turn the optimist. i think it's going to come back.
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to. this is harlan kentucky and. move them boys into work and straight families i'm only. in. a coma any city with almost no coal. slimmest. job. was to. see these people the survivors of 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
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a million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. thanks. max kaiser financial survival guide stacey let's learn about fill out let's say i'm a strike at. the fight wall street fraud thank you for helping. destroy that's right. slavery. the continuing saga how did three people in solitary survive contamination by a military grade nerve agent london has a lot of explaining to do also nikki haley goes off the rails again what exactly is a normal country. was was.
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