calculation by the americans not to deteriorate into a clash a direct confrontation with russia. well. this is a pat on the land. five years ago it was all grass. down over there now and this is pumper going day in day out we didn't have any choice really we could have put it over that way or ways i mean we could have moved it a little bit. but we have to let the people that own the mineral rights get to those minorities and they compensated us for what they took here but the company

built it and we have it now for own next forty years i'm guessing i don't own. my house up there and there we have we used to have a beautiful view. now we have this to look at brings in a little bit of money very little if they took us out of here and get back all the money i made off of it. ain't going to happen. someday. you know an 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. we have nothing to say about where. well i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest 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 they can put it where ever they want they don't need any your permission foreign oil industry follows a proper practices i don't think will 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 groundwater 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 homes so if that would happen it would be

a very bad thing. as all that fracturing job 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 pump out that often their ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill any kind of 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 won't his hand will bail because that's when my older bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is it's is run in the water. for history it is as is the nobody drinks the water out of iron stepfather from north dakota i think. and drank some

bottled water you know just it's just like you never. drank water out of the out of the faucet night is that 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 on land this is not government land unless 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

this notion in attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely. the question is me raised his grass the attention 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 eclipse services a company that facilitates the shipping of water for fracking through pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. thanks for that used to hold water for the fracking 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 and. dollars

on water for one is one of the biggest expenses on one of these wells. on the water after the frack they just lot 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 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 gets this site you're produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with a truck intricate out take it to disposal facilities. keep their lives sixty miles out of the list and on fort berthold reservation for

black gold 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 roll would. build. nighttime some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. fracking water it's all water and all these things into the ditch. because 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 do don't want them to walk in the water and one can to kitchen fish that you can eat you know want to grow a garden and to do and have to worry about poison in the plant i want to have plants will. medicine cannot be formed now because of the things in the water.

oil workers are best suited to judge the eventual pollution risk caused by fracking . unfortunately this problem is not a priority they are in survival mode first and foremost they are in need of work. 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 do not hesitate to suppose of these toxic materials into wild dumps. especially teams are left to ship them back to suitable treatment states. 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 in and the moment if you for a saw the us rise of the first producers of crude oil based the shale. gas. 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 there 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 direct result of the hydraulic fracturing that's taken place like here and williston in the bach and in 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 bakken. 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 listed looking for new jobs. in february twenty fifteen want one of my coworkers i worked with he calmly and he said managers laid everybody off. he's in and told everybody to go to a room get all a stove and 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 for 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 to keep. house in construction began in the peak of the realest boom is now nearly complete . occupied in part by survivors of 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 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 the. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this justice is a fair is this all us would use a country like addition and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just costs the way i think it's very immoral. four men are sitting in a car when the feds get shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row

there's no way he got a knife and there's no possible way because the less do not shoot around a corner. just . think. it's hard. but i'm. a make him good money or bill's off memory mode to help my children out.

that. my children are very poor. 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. the roof high takes we we had to haul the water otherwise that the wells shut down and. people get upset so. you do what you have to do.

well not 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 doing 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 will 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.

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 he's 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

. 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 supplied 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 prices 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 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.

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. this is stuff. this was a barn garage and there was a snow storm and heavy snowstorm 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 thankful for that sort of. so tonight we'll have full new people. who are. the

kind of a last minute rush. but it's nice to have the company and 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 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. so i stay away from both of.

this gas station over here we used to deliver to the. three four dozen donuts last week break with 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 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 sells cosmetics to women here in the oil field. and we gave her a lot to come up here but we thought it was going to be best for a family with top of 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 that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. this

in the boom will come back but if it does it will be much much more shallow and a growth curve. and be nearly. it is. much money and. i don't know. an internal optimist. i think it's going to come back.

something happens in this case there was a chemical attack on civilians in syria and then the public and the media are waiting for the response and i think it's very clear now that if president trump said that there is going to be a response then it will be i just think that our expectations in a way that this american response will be so severe that it will be a game changer i think this is not the case it will again be messages and very careful calculation by the americans not to deteriorate into a cloud. shade direct confrontation with russia. were.

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