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Oil Boom Has Downside for Towns in the Bakken Shale

By Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers SIDNEY, Mont — Politicians are quick to extol the virtues of domestic oil drilling while ignoring the trade-offs. Here in this fast-developing Western oil patch, the gritty side of America’s new oil boom is on display with rising crime, a slain schoolteacher, rents that have tripled and public resources [...]

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Horizontal Drilling – Hydraulic Fracturing – It’s Not New

While economic contribution and job creation seem to dominate headline space as well as political focus, some may feel that we compromise our future as we emotionally react to the pain of our present set of circumstances. Questions/concerns about our domestic energy production are not in short supply. They range from what technological processes are [...]

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Call Guinness – North Dakota Does It Again !

Well, it may not be as interesting or as weird as the world’s shortest stuntman, the widest mouth, the most Big Mac’s consumed, the most times hit by a car in two minutes, or the loudest burp – male; but North Dakota’s oil driller have out performed their previous year’s record once again.  According to [...]

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

You’re down to the wire, time is almost up. You’ve used all your life lines getting to this point and you’ve decided to go for broke on the final million dollar question on an episode of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”. This is it, crunch time ! All your dreams are about to come [...]

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Get Out Your Roadmap to Prosperity – Bakken or Bust !

Well this couch potato is tired of coming home after a long day at work to vegetate in front of the TV and listen to a bunch of talking heads tell me just how bad this economy really is as well as just what’s wrong with the world.  That’s why I was pleasantly surprised by [...]