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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. 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. 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 i 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 to do ground water as i see it when we live our air
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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. 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 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 light and i disturb just swallow his hand we're bad because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything.
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i'm pretty sure is it's is wrong in the water. for this or 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 is just like if you ever. drop water on the 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 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.
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there's just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures while tracking. down how to pain is advocating this notion in an attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely either this question is me raised to scratch the attention 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 the facilitates the shipping of water for fracking through pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. the think that used 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. you know those spent millions of dollars on water for one frack is one of the biggest expenses 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 while 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 a true. intricate out there get to disposal facilities.
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keep 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 sacred 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. rock in water it's all water logged the 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 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
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them to enjoy this river where i do don't want them to walk in the water i want them to catch a fish you 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 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 and 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 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 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 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 direct result of the hydraulic fracturing that's taken place like here and williston in the 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
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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. and very rarely twenty fifteen want one of my coworkers i worked with he called me and he said managers laid everybody off. he's in and told everybody to go to a room get all the stuff 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 for oil prices. i can still
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any interrogation what you'll see is. to put people in that frame of mind make the money make them want to give and don't take no for an answer. she said if i were. there i would be home by the next day there's a. police officer's. misconduct that has nothing to do with. circumstances. i think we may get. some point in the future. political. minutes with. the for case.
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it's hard. but i'm. i made him good money he bills off me both to help my children out and. my children are very poor. just something that has to be done. you know that it's just like this job too you know two nights ago i wanted to go home i was tired. but. the roof hi thanks we we had to hold the water otherwise that the well shut down and.
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people get upset so. you do what you have to do. in the oil. adults has slowed down but still steady and you know just well doing three jobs every day of the week. said the donors shabd 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. for
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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 think. he had to leave california because there's no jobs why is there no jobs there's too many mexicans who do the job i was doing for half the price and you know how many donuts oh. wow.
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i've done more for. the borders 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 yeah i. miss him. but 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.
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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 frat 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 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
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a huge labor shortage the companies will be throwing money at us. so. 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 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.
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so that's the whole process. sort of her thing in the end. 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 to ride share 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. thank
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. 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. 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 enjoy. as i said before if you're really outside of. the former girlfriend came up with this times 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. and.
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because you're going to go on out get the best that. you should frankly thanks. cindy the owner of 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 with 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
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nobody could see coming that false confessions would be in the spot the waste the fall of. any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat. the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were. so i stayed there i would 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.
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