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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. 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 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 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 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
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we use in our homes 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 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 i and i just i'm just swallow his hand we're bad 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 there nobody drinks the water out of i did so. father from north dakota i think everybody drank
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so bottled water you know it just it's just like you ever. drop water on the out of the faucet night isn't that it's pretty nasty when where 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 so far there is no proof. there's just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures tracking. down how deep it is advocating
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this notion and it attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely. the question is be raised to address 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 are used 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 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. spend millions of dollars on water for
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one is one of the biggest expenses one of these wells. on the water after the frack they just blow up 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 well comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters and 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
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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 and we have virgin land here and now there's oil roads and build. nighttime some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. fracking 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 cricks 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 one can do kitchen fish that you can eat you know want to grow a garden and to do and have to worry about poison in the plan. i want to have.
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medicine if not before 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
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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 if you saw the u.s. rise in the first produces 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 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 lot of this is your. january. eighty thousand and fifteen the price per barrel
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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 fear that 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 ones for
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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 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 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 barracks will probably pollute the landscape for eight years to come. construction sites were banded by the dozen and left to
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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 care back home. just. now as much they're used to.
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i consider was so 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 are your. future historians may look back at donald trump's handling of the murder of jamal to show as a case study of the lack of leadership and outright folly his reasons for giving the saudis or rather the crown prince a free pass simply don't make sense why because it's all about iran. nobody could see coming that false confessions would. that in this population of
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both of which if you had any interrogations out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable makes them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said therefore it's. a sad statement that i will be home by the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. it's seemed wrong. when all the rules just don't hold. me to that he's yet to stamp out these days to come to agitate and gain from it equals
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betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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. that.
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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. there was a high takes we 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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in the oil. adults have slowed down a little bit 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 hours 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 good to do the same job i was doing for half of the price and you know how many donuts oh. wow. i've done more for. big orders twenty four doesn't preorder.
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been encouraging out i'm 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 you know. 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 thirty five rigs active in the block and. as time goes on without new wells being drilled and frat our one point one million
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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 who gone back home
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i guess i know some are gone back to the bozeman big sky area because 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 some day but. so that's the whole process. sort of her thing to me and.
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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. and this is stuff. 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. thank . 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
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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. here. so tonight we'll. do.
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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 his claims oh you're like the only visitors that i've had here. in the over forty years that i've been and witnessed and. 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.
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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 i don't so. it was one more. it's always get this one and keep on going around the corner. because you're going to go on how good it. feels to frank de sac.
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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 souls 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 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 that's not what it used to be. and. it's a tough reality and.
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there. is still a boom will come back 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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dollars. dollars. dollars. on the dollar a dollar is what i was doing. when we got carried away here we care the music with us. we are here with a dry jeer. blind you have got to get rid of those who are not go away who will not die quietly. real the hard work we do is the true.
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