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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 who 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 i'm there we have we used to have a beautiful view. on our i 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.
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some day 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 said it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes be out of mind for sure. you have nothing to say about where. i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest but they don't have to listen to you don't mean you have no legal say and put it that way so yeah they can put it wherever they want they don't need any your permission for a while under st paul's 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 true to ground water as i see it when we live our
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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 to fracture in job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and you know the 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 often to ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill it 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 i and i disturb just swallow his hand. because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything.
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i'm pretty sure is is wrong in the water. for his fruit 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 water on the out of the faucet night isn't this it is 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 finds scientific proof that there is real pollution going on they won't be able to shut this down. and cells. are there is no proof.
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there is just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures while tracking. down how to pain is advocating this notion in attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely either this question is me raised to address the intention of anti-fashion groups. one thing is certain the practice of hydraulic fracking to be as large quantities of drinking water. ten young is the owner of the clip services company of the facilities to shipping of water for fracking through pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. these thank you to hold water for the fracking. thirty five thousand barrels and so they'll pump water from one to the other until
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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. so they'll spend millions of dollars on water for one frack is one of the biggest expense is one of these wells the fresh. 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 they just burn it off right here boy it comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters in there it separates the oil the water in the gas this site here produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with it trog. intricate out there get to disposal facilities.
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keith their lives 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. 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 roads and oil fields. at night time some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. blocking water it's all water a lot of 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 cricks with 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
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didn't want them to walk in the water i want them to catch a fish that you can eat and i want to grow garden and to do won't 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 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. especially teams are left to ship them back to suitable treatment states.
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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 read a christmas two thousand and fourteen science turned red thanks to saudi arabia the staggering fall of the price per barrel of oil will put an end to the moment if you phoria saw the us rise of the first producers of crude oil face to 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 because that almost always comes with a large bust and the bust to be rather difficult and now that i'm
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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 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
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a reason he stays active if 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 stayed with us to looking for new jobs. in february twenty fifteen want one of my coworkers i work with he call me and he said managers laid everybody off. he's in and told everybody to go to a room get almost zero 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 why day to the next.
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these dilapidated barracks will probably pollute the landscape for eight years to come. construction sites were abandoned by the dozen and left to rest and. housing construction began at the peak of the willis to whom is now nearly complete . occupied in part by survivors of the good the neighborhood seems sadly empty. here and with the downturn in the economy. or oil prices. i can still
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raise more money than i care back home. just. not 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 or. china russia definitely on the deep dollar ization camp they are hoarding gold they're building up gold as the play to deep dollar rise they are looking for the dollar to trade significantly lower.
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when else chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape out they become agitated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. it's hard. but i'm. i made him good money and i'm the bills off me both to help my children out and. my children are very poor.
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just something that has to be. you know that'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 tanks we had to haul the water otherwise the the well shut down and. people get upset so. you do what you have to do. in the oil. adults has slowed down
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a little but still steady and you know just well i'm doing three jobs every day of the week. don't 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 write this place down for only three hundred fifty dollars a month he has the whole downstairs to himself. which is
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a little bit messy. 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 job i was doing for half of the price. you know how many donuts oh. wow. there were twenty four of those were. men 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 you know. but
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we did this. 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 thirty five rigs active in the block and. as time goes on without new wells being drilled and frag 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
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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 some day. in 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 oil 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 area because constructions doing ok there some went back to minneapolis some 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
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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. process. sort of her cleaning the litter. i could buy a house 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
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it that way i don't have a lot of needs. and this is stuff. that is cheap 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 watch. 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
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and once that infrastructure is built it still needs to be maintained i'm very thankful for that. so tonight will. do people. who are. one of the last minute rush. but it's nice to have the company and. as i said before if you're really outside of. the former girlfriend came up with it's times oh you're like the only visitors that i've had here. in the
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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. so i stay away from both up. for. this gas station over here we used to deliver to the. three four dozen donuts last
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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 one out good but. you should frankly think. cindy the owner of the manager of the store there. her business is down so far that she's had to. take homicide. job now and so she solves cosmetics to women here in
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the oil field. and we gave her a lot to come up here but we thought it was going to be best for our family without 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 that's a tough reality to deal with.
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this in the boom will come back but if it does it'll be much much more shallow the growth curve. and of won't be nearly as. much money and. i don't know. the total optimist. i think it's going to come back.
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it's official now jamal khashoggi died in a saudi consulate in turkey on october second the person or persons responsible for
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his death is yet to be determined but one thing is certain this tragic story is far from a. prosecution only to be can almost. be felt on his own. court where you question the threat of fines can also by the name on to seem to i mean yeah i'm you know i mean down the political pressure. and in one called old you know the security jenison is one of the new kind of business models here was my american culture ations jadhav wasn't completely sold on good matilda's it as an abuse scene controls and c.n.n. was not on the scene and the solution. in this is he didn't. get home. and it was going he's also knows it is just me deleting data and investigative documentary. ghost war on
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unseen. you know world's big partners a lot face and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i thought. nothing could be a nightmare fight through the skills of the most serious media you could be forty plus
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to cook some people. believe born to. be. the god. exists is harlan kentucky. we all knew the places people were going to breed families leave. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the polis just said i'd. love to these people are survivors of 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 happening it's happened.
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in a threat to russia and china donald trump says he will expand his country's nuclear arsenal until people come to their senses. here in the agreement they should have been done years ago but still people come to this and will build it up the us president earlier announced that washington intends to pull out of a key nuclear arms agreement with russia provoking a mixed reaction from european allies. saudi arabia admits dissident a journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered in its consulate in istanbul but as international pressure grows washington holds off on punitive measures saying that any talk of sanctions is premature.

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