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 of dollars are generated for employers and the state. The year is 1984, and…
Campus, International, Local, National, News
The Drop: Gas Prices Helping Consumers, Hurting ND Oil
Jan 22, 2015, 8:32 AM 0
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 week, prices are dimes higher in Fargo, where GasBuddy’s daily survey of 73 gas…
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 for North Dakota sustainability Monday. She presented “Thinking for the Seventh Generation: Fracking, Water and…
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 in play with the industry. Energy sustainability and fracking will be discussed by author…
Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts
‘Oil & Water’: What They Mean to North Dakota
Nov 17, 2014, 8:30 AM 0
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 focuses on North Dakota’s use of water and oil. The show is divided into…
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 Gallery on the North Dakota State campus. On Thursday, a panel highlighting interdisciplinary, collaborative…
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 resulted was a fresh perspective on a potentially exhausted topic. The photos shift between…
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 of oil in the badlands of western North Dakota is equaled only by the…