Saturday, June 9, 2012

North Dakota’s oil boom brings damage along with prosperity

North Dakota oil rig
                                  An oil rig near Williston, North Dakota

Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller's formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs and reviving moribund local businesses.
But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity.
North Dakota’s oil boom brings damage along with prosperity | MinnPost

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