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and now we have this to look at bring them 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 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 say it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes to be out of mind for sure. you have
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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 yeah they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission for all 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 ground water as i see it when we live out here 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 on a fraction job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and you know the chemicals because they use an. it is one they use
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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 car it kills it because one of our guy has. got some of it on his hands and i and i disturbed just swallow his hand and we were bad because that's when my older bio bio kills biological. anything. 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 it's just like if you ever. drop water on the out of the faucet night is 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
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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 head of it is advocating his notion and it attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely. the question is being raised to express the intention of anti-fashion groups. the thing is certain the practice of hydraulic fracking
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demands 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. thanks for that 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 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 of dollars on water for one is one of the biggest expenses one of these wells. on the 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
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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 gas this site here produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with a truck intricate out to get to disposal facility. keith there live 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. others oil roll of oil fields.
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at night some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. rock in water it's all water logged you think into the ditch. because they're too lazy to drive to the dump. and that it's going into our river or into our critics if we're going to our spot on. the fields 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 didn't want them to walk in the water one can to catch a fish you can eat you know want to grow garden did you would have to worry about poison in the plant i want to have plants with their medicine if not before and now because of the things that are in the water. oil workers are best suited to judge the eventual pollution risk caused by fracking
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. unfortunately this problem is not a priority they are in survival mode first and foremost they are in need of work. during the journey phase radioactive to prepare up 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. 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 aviva 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. well put it into the moment if you phoria saw the us rise and the first
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produces of crude oil taste the shale. we can feel the concern brought by the price could 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 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
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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 think he has not stopped after ten thousand the wells we still need to extract the millions of barrels lying beneath the bokken. this situation brings happiness to the ones pushing 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 liston looking for new jobs. in february twenty fifteen one one of my
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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 was two o'clock in the morning at night in february in the winter. a man can say emptied out enclosed from one day to the next. these dilapidated barracks will 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 list is now nearly complete.
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occupied in part by survivors of the the neighborhood seems sadly empty. even with the downturn in the economy. boil prices. i can still raise more money than i came back. just. not as much they 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.
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on this on the line circumstances that's a load for the emergence of this very vigilant for violence i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of guys at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken only minutes we've. been on the traditions . dallas. a dolly is what i was doing. when we got garrett over here we care the music with us.
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we are here with a drag here. by you know going to get rid of those who are not go away the nice guy quiet. real the hard what we do is the truth. it's hard. but i'm. i'm really good money bills off me votes here help my children out.
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my children are very poor. just something that has to be do. 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 we had to haul the water otherwise to the well shut down and. people get upset so. you do what you have to do.
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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 to three or four making the sandwiches and.
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i write this place down for only three hundred fifty dollars a month he has the whole downstairs to himself. which is a little bit messy. 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. i've done more for. big orders twenty four dozen or.
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i've 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. 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 frats our one point one
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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 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
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back home 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 someday but. so that's the whole process. sort of her claim to me.
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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. so this is. 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 was under it. 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. for one of the last minute rush. but it's nice to have the company and you.
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as i said before i've you're really outside of. the former girlfriend came up with his times oh you're like the only visitors that i've had here. in the over forty years that i've been in williston. 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 of you.
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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 i don't so. here goes one more. it's always get this one and keep on going around the corner. because you're going to go on how to get the best that. you should 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 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 . the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and. it's a tough reality and your. and.
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this. 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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statistic from a couple excel came out that showed the wealth and income gap around the world in different countries and then there's there's the you ask there's japan there's france and then there's the u.k. it's like wow this stuff incredible spread between this concentration and then you've got the royal leicester people there in the tory party who support the queen whose whole point of bragg's it was to support the queen ok so they just aerialist and a moron of policy because incredible poverty brags it's all about supporting the queen and getting rid of their world contacts. dollars. dollars. dollars i mean a dollar a dolly is what i was doing. but we got carried away here we care the music with us
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it's not about that. we are here we were dragged here. by you know going to get rid of those who will not go away who will not die quietly. real the hard work we do is the truth. and this young going circumstances. that's a load for these emotions over this very very eventful violence i think that we may get this sons and even grandsons of guys at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken on the minutes we. had armor for cations.
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nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population of prof look at birch. head any interrogation 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 make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said therefore which. sat on the statement that i would be home by that time 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 solving their crime.
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the headline school is the people that injured and detained across france says violence flares during demonstrations against fuel price increases place use tear gas and more to come in against protesters trying to stop fison the capital. not a bit of difficulty opening my eyes right now not because we've just been in the midst of all of this to gas.

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