North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity

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3. I was in ND two years ago...in Minot. The attitude then was

'drill baby drill' and ain't this great! Unemployment? Ha...
jobs everywhere....of course there was no place to live and
then towns directly effected couldn't handle the sewage, etc.
That beautiful land...scarred to me. I'm going back in August
for a wedding. Of course, I can't afford to fly there anymore.
The cost of the flight between Minneapolis and Minot is
outrageous....well, the oil people pay it so the rest of us
have to do the same! So, 3 of us will drive from Minneapolis
and save a bundle but..............someday these folks will
take a good look at their farmlands, hunting lands and fishing
lakes and streams and figure out what some of us know now.
How contamination is worth oil I'll never understand.