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 from 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. ain'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 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 a 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 to ground water as i see it when we live out here in rural areas most of us depend on wells for. for our our drinking water and all

the water we use in our homes if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. i was wrong a 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 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. 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. there is 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 trial tracking 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 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

that's been millions of dollars on water for one 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 haul it 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 loyal 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 facilities.

keith there live sixty miles out of williston on fort berthold reservation for black gold flows freely that 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 build. some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. rocking water it's all water 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 critics it's going into our spot on. the feeds 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 get your fish if you can eat you know want to grow a garden 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 work. during the journey phase radioactive to prepare our back to the surface is a major risk for workers and the environment some companies clearly are not concerned do not hesitate to suppose that 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 how. as are. doing so could jeopardize one of the best

ways to get rich quick. of course all beautiful stories have been read and 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 the sun 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 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 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 stopped after ten thousand the wells we still need to extract a million. so barrels lying beneath the pocket. this situation brings happiness to

the one person for serious companies but it is devastating to 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 called me and he said managers laid everybody off. he's in and told everybody to go to a room get all this 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 from one day to the next. these dilapidated barracks will probably pollute the 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 is now nearly complete . occupied in part by survivors of the the neighborhood seems sadly empty. just. now as much as 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 fire. find work. because there are not too many people hiring

or. when lawmakers manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the running clusters to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real news is. the world. a messy underlying circumstances that allowed for the emergence of this very very violent form 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 on the military. the army for cations. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense office says we're got to act and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for. 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. just something that has to be do. you know that it's just like this job to you know two nights ago i wanted to go home i was tired. but. the roof high twinks 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. in the oil. adults has slowed down a little but still steady and you know just well doing three jobs every day of the week. said the donor shop it's work about sixty eight hours. in the day for the guy doing construction maybe five or six. in this he's now working 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 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 good to 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 is a good father he misses a little girl. missing. but we did so. 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 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 some day. 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 all 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 erika's 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 general process. sort of her claim to me. 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. 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 wash off and rick. thank

. you 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.

so tonight i will. do. 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 all the times oh you're like the only visitors that i've had here. in the over four years that i've been with most. used to be are are or who are interested in girls. that like politics i've come to realize well politics is a scam girls are just problems. i mean. 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 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 and get the best that. you should frank de sac. 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 new york.

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 optimist.

i think it's going to come back.

dollars. dollars. dollars i mean a dollar a dollar is what i was doing. when we got garrett over here we care the music with us that. we are here with a drag here. by good luck going to get rid of those who are not go away who will not die quiet. real the hard

work we do is the truth. i think that everyone of us have but inside i'm. a dockside and i think. going down to your next side you can improve yourself. but it's also pretty then true but i really believe this the bottom that we show up side is so we end depend. on our condition our life.

i'm going to please go camp sundown camp for people that can't decide and they're like so tired. this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients are going to have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside the still gets taken in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles the way down to the bone. there's no really. we're just not sure this is just.

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