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Growth Trend to Continue in the Bakken

A recent study by the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency reflects the state’s already rapidly growing population is expected to grow to almost 842,000 people by the year 2025.  Until the momentum of the Bakken boom, North Dakota’s population had peaked in 1930 at 680,845.  Over the past decade population had declined by almost 6% due to a subsequent farm depression, [...]

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The Bakken – Mixed Reactions

Sitting on the edge of the Bakken Oil Patch and looking across the miles of changed scenery over the past couple of years, I see hope and I see a stained glass view of mixed reaction from people.  The recent proposal from the City of Williston to ban living in RV Campers makes me think [...]

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3 Common Causes of Burnout

Burnout can be difficult to spot if you’re already in it. After all, if you’re anything like me, running yourself into the ground because such a natural habit that you don’t even notice how long it’s been since you’ve last had a break. Go ahead and think about it for a second…when is the last [...]

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Largest Growing Population of Homeless Making $100K

New advances in precision horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing in the Williston Basin of North Dakota (2005) has allowed the Bakken formation to become a world class technology oil play with nearly 100 percent of all new wells being productive.  At present, North Dakota ranks fourth in the nation of oil producing states, but with the vast expanse [...]

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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 [...]

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North Dakota Housing Needed for Bakken Workers

The population of Williston, ND is expected to rise from current levels of 13,000 in 2010 to over 65,000 by the year 2020. This puts a tremendous strain on the housing needs for the community as well as the long term community planning that is needed to develop viable, healthy neighborhoods for the residents of [...]