when somebody find themselves well it's a pint we just of the common ground. well . this is a pat on the land. five years ago it was all grass. like that 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 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 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. but it wasn'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 be out of mind for sure. 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 i mean you have no legal say in it put it that way so they can put a 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 to 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 homes so if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. as well that fraction job 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 pump 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 of one of our guy has. got some of it on his hands and i and i disturb just won't his hand we're bad because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is is wrong. in the water. for an answer 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 just it's just like you ever. drop water on the out of the faucet night isn't there 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 own 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 so far there is no proof. there is just. propaganda.

is it possible to respect safety measures tracking. down how deep it is advocating his mission in attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely. the question is being raised and grants the attention of anti-fashion groups. one thing is certain the practice of hydraulic fracking to be as large quantities of drinking water. can 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. these things for the youth to hold water for the fracking. 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 freshwater. water that's run in tears coming out of the city water

line so it's all clean water. spend millions of dollars on water for one is one of the biggest expenses one of these wells. on the water after the frack 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. comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters in there it separates the oil the water in the guess 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 roads and oil fields. at night some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. blocking water it's all water and all 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 tricks with going into our spot on. this is not in the water but it is 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 one computer can. fish you

can eat you want to grow garden did you would have to worry about poisoning the planet i want to have. medicine i cannot do for 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 of radioactive debris 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 . especially 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 i'll be the first 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 saw the us rise of the first producers of crude oil based the shale oil. we can feel the concern brought by the price 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 they 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 wonder. what's going to happen to my business because we have

a lot invested 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 box and in a 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 ten

thousand wells we still need to extract the millions of barrels lying beneath the bakken. this situation brings happiness to the ones for him 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 to 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 one day to the next.

these dilapidated probably kaluta 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 willis to whom it is now nearly complete. occupied in part by survivors of the the neighborhood seems sadly empty. here and with the downturn in the economy. boil prices. i can still raise more money than i came 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 or. china or russia definitely on the dollar as a sink camp they are hoarding goal they're building on goal see play two d. dollar rise they are looking for the dollar to trade significantly lower. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport. that's less i'm show business i'll see that.

he. does this is holland kentucky the. oldest moved the employee says it was going to st danny's leave only. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was said. al was a laugh to these people the 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 happened it's happened.

it's hard. but i'm. i'm really good money bills off them it won't. help my children. my children are very poor. just something that has to be good. 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 were a. hi thanks we we had to hold the water otherwise that the well shut down and.

people get upset so. you do what you have to do. well in the oil. adults has slowed down but still steady and you know doing just well 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 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 good will do the same job i was doing for half of the price. you

know how many donuts oh. wow. there were twenty four dozen or. 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 is a good father he misses a little girl. missing. 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 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 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 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 some day but.

so that's the. 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 i don't have a lot of needs. and this is. it is she just was 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 want. 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.

so tonight we'll have four new people. one of the last minute rush. but it's nice to have the company and i actually enjoy . as i said before if you're really outside of. the former girlfriend came up with 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 far too 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 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.

because you're going to go on out get the best that. you should frank de sac. 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 her a lot to come up here but we thought it was going to be best for our family we talk to 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 is not what it used to be. and. it's a tough reality and your home. and. this. is still a boom will come back but if it does it'll be much much more shallow a growth curve. and won't be nearly as. much money and.

i'm not. going to try the optimist. i think it's going to come back.

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