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follows a proper practice is 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 on our air in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our old so if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. i was wrong a fraction john that's where they pump the sand the fluid and the other chemicals because 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 into ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill it any kind of living organism of any kind it kills it because one of our guy has.
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got some of it on his hands and i 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 an issue that 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 just is just like if you ever. drop one of them out of the faucet night isn't this it 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 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 fines. scientific proof that there is real pollution going on
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they won't be able to shut this down. and so far there is no proof. players just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures for us tracking. down how to paint is advocating this notion in attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely these are this the question is me raised to express the intention of anti-fashion groups. one thing is certain the practice if i try the tracking to be as large quantities of drinking water. ten young is the owner of the clip services company of the facilitates the shipping of water for fracking through pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. these thanks for that used to hold water for the fracking
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the 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 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 fresh. one the water after the frac they just log 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 they just burn it off right here loyal comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters in there it separates the oil the wall. order in the gas this site
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your produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with a truck intricate out to get that disposal facility. keith barely sixty miles out of the list and on fort berthold reservation for black gold flows freely that accounts for one quarter of north dakota's production. of 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 roll of oil fields. at night and some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison . trucking water it's all water logged these things into the ditch. because they're too lazy to drive to the dump station and that is going into our river going into
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our creeks if went into our spot on. 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 do don't want them to walk in the water i want them to catch a fish he can eat you know want to grow a garden and to do won't have to worry about poisoning the planet i want to have plants with their medicine if not before and now because of the things that are in this 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 or. during the journey phase radioactive to prepare out back to the surface is a major risk for workers and the environment some companies clearly are not concerned do not hesitate. dispose of these toxic materials into wild dumps.
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specialty 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 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 put it into the moment if you phoria the us rise in the first produces of crude oil based the shale. we can feel the concern brought by the price cut everywhere and will is to now shows the science of a boom town going to. people in this town are very very suspicious of oil booms
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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 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 director. it's all of the hydraulic fracturing that's taken place like here and
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will stand in a box and in other areas they want to put these companies out of business. even if circumstances are worrisome these days i fear that he has not stopped after 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 are 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 call me and he said managers late everybody oh. he's in a tell everybody to go to a room get all this stuff in get out and this will two o'clock in the morning at night in february in the winter. a man can't
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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 williston boom is now nearly complete . occupied in part by survivors of the good the neighborhood seems sadly empty.
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even with the downturn in the economy. boiled prices. i can still make 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 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.
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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 doing just well doing three jobs every day of the week. said the donor showed up its work about sixty eight hours. in the day for the guy to.
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construction maybe five or six years 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. 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
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how many donuts oh. wow. i've done more. big orders twenty four dozen or. 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 companies have done so much cost cutting and
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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 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
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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 all 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 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.
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so that's the general process. sort of her claim to me. 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. this was a born garage and there was it 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
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and. i. have a hose hooked up in there and i wash up and rick. thanks . to 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 thankful for that sort of share here.
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so tonight we'll. do. one of the last minute rush. but it's nice to have the company and i actually enjoy . as i said before i've you're really outside of. the former girlfriend came all the 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 are are or who are interested in girls. that like politics i've come to realize
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well politics is a scam girls are just problems. i mean. so i stay away from both of. you. for. this gas station over here we used to deliver to them. three four dozen donuts last week they quit the order altogether because nobody was coming in to buy don't so. there goes one more. always get this one and keep on going around the corner.
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because you're going to go on out to get the best that. you should face thanks. cindy the owner of the other 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. we gave a lot to come up here but we thought it was going to be best for our family we thought that 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
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