"For those who have spent their entire lives in the previously quiet farm towns that dot the northwestern corner of North Dakota, the discovery of oil in the Bakken formation has been anything but fortuitous.Check out the video on CNN Monday. (Thanks, Mom)
The thousands of people from around the country flocking to these boomtowns has led to a housing shortage and an increase in traffic, crime and frustration among the locals who feel like their small, close-knit towns are now gone forever."
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Locals to big oil: We want our town back!
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