Running on Fumes in North Dakota; North Dakota is not the promised land the oil companies would...

[Purveyor]

This New York Times short video is a MUST SEE for those interested in the human tragedy unfolding in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota. Please view this and get interested in what is happening up there. North Dakota is not the promised land the oil companies would have you believe.

Watch video here: http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002648361/running-on-fumes-in-north-dakota.html

http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Running-on-Fumes-in-North-in-Best_Web_OpEds-North-Dakota_Oil_Oil-140127-507.html

[2naSalit]

1. Thanks for posting this!

People don't listen when I try to tell them exactly what this little flick says. There was some discussion a little while back about how good paying the jobs are in ND and how you can go there and slam some fast cash then bailout. It doesn't work that way. You become a captive worker and you can't even afford to be there once you get there, it's a trap.

And it makes me ill whenever I hear/see the president tout that we are producing more oil than ever before. He. like all the news media, fail to mention the cost that doesn't seem to outweigh the meager benefit.

I've seen this scenario before, and it always seems to end worse than the the time before.

[BobTheSubgenius]

2. Fort MacMurray, the closest town to the Alberta tar sands is like that.

A few years ago, counter staff at Tim Horton's in Fort Mac started at $18 an hour....which sounds great, until the same news piece reported that a bachelor apt. would fetch $1500 a month. Other prices are in line with those numbers. Basically, a mini-economy running on a high inflation rate.