"The Crop Is Dying As We Watch It": ND Farmers Trying To Cope With Fracking Waste, Toxic Dumping

[misterhighwasted]

4. Appreciate this Post hatrack..I grew up there. It is as red a state as they get.

The excitement of oil development as the Bakken took hold, is suddenly met with staring directly at the reality of an out of control business. Their beautiful clean air & skies is clouding with the smell of 7 wells per section of land.
The beautiful fields & prairie that offered great hunting of pheasant, deer & water fowl is toxic by unreported & unregulated toxic spills & intentional dumps.
Their beautiful Lake Sakakwea & Missouri River is now fragile & vulnerable with a new maze of pipelines running under & around in all directions.
The recreation lovers in that State have their livelihood threatened for generations.
Winter ice fishing, & summertime tournaments on the Missouri, where the grand fish of them all, the Walleye exists in plenty, is not so certain as this State continues to drive their own shiny beautiful bus into a deep toxic sludge filled ditch.

Good Luck North Dakota.
Glad I knew you when you were clean & green in the summer & bright & white in the winter.
When your clear blue skies by day reflected back that star filled Milky Way by night.
Thanks for the memories & as many nights I watched the Northern Lights dance across the sky, from childhood to adult, a good 30 years worth, I delight in having never once seen you dance the same dance twice.

I'll stay away & remember the pure land as it was when I was there.
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