Oil prices are high. Workers, wary from the severe recession, come in throngs to sleepy towns like Watford City and Williston. Rigs are erected. Millions “Billboards Be Damned, We Need Change, Now”
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The Drop: Gas Prices Helping Consumers, Hurting ND Oil
Bison fans who traveled through America’s Heartland to Frisco a few weekends ago saw prices as low as $1.50 per gallon in Oklahoma City. This “The Drop: Gas Prices Helping Consumers, Hurting ND Oil”
LaDuke Presents Fracking Facts
Winona LaDuke, director of the Native American-led environmental organization Honor the Earth, covered the economics of extreme energy and topics like fracking, stranded assets and options “LaDuke Presents Fracking Facts”
A Big Fracking Problem?
A two-part series published last month by the New York Times offered an unsettling look into the effects of fracking in North Dakota and the politics “A Big Fracking Problem?”
‘Oil & Water’: What They Mean to North Dakota
Oil and water: two things known not to mix; however, they do so wonderfully in the current exhibition at the Memorial Union Gallery. This exhibition “‘Oil & Water’: What They Mean to North Dakota”
Panel Discusses Issues the Bakken Brings
A panel exploring issues related to oil, water and environmental justice in the Bakken oil formation was held this past week in the Memorial Union “Panel Discusses Issues the Bakken Brings”
Review: ‘Oil in the Fields’ at the Rourke
The Rourke Art Museum welcomed German photographer Andy Scholz to display work he had created while examining the effects of North Dakota’s oil boom. What “Review: ‘Oil in the Fields’ at the Rourke”
North Dakota: The Empty Promise Land
In recent years, North Dakota has been hailed across the country as a new Promised Land in a nation racked by economic recession. The flow “North Dakota: The Empty Promise Land”