Dakota Black Gold

September 2008

The American state of North Dakota is experiencing an oil boom. Using new technologies it is extracting oil thats previously been out of reach. Can this help solve Americas dependency on foreign oil?
Spurred on by record high oil prices, North Dakotan farmers are going after hard to reach oil, and their land is finally making them rich. Dakota sits on the Bakken, a rock formation with huge potential oil reserves. With current technology, we can get 1% to 2% of the oil out of the Bakken, we may be able to collect 2 billion barrels, tells the President of North Dakotas Petroleum Council. Former oilman T. Boone Pickens believes America needs to end its reliance on foreign oil. Yet he doesnt think the oil reserves here are enough to fuel America, you can't drill your way out he claims. Americas need for a new energy future looks set to bring yet more change, and wealth, to North Dakota.

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[LastCynicStanding]

Devide and conquer is the method and you are its victim. As long as you believe you are different from your neighbors then you always will be.

[benjaminlately]

They certainly tried hard to make North Dakotans looks like a bunch of country bumpkins.

[kizashiclub]

since people are plugging random green sites on here now. TheBakkenFormation . Com Although we have few members the people we have throughly understand energy in this country.

to AryanKnight most of the development in the willistion basin is being handled by smaller corporations. While drilling is hard on local resources it has keep our area immune to the problems the rest of the country has to face.

[DorthNakotan]

North Dakotans are kick ass. Between our oil and nuclear weapons, we could rule the world.

I even heard Chuck Norris wants to change his show to "Walkerson - North Dakota Ranger".

[gregjalbert]

Oil and money addicts are corrupt and diseased. CarFree . com -- FreePublicTransit . org -- BicycleCity . com -- PostCarbon . org -- Puppets of the oil/automobile/asphalt/militar­y/congressional cartels, free yourselves. Oil addiction is suicide, like alcoholism. Oil addicts are like winos: deny, deny, deny. Corporate media is a brainwashing scam. Polluters are crooks. Prosecute and imprison. Puppets of the ego manipulation industry, free yourselves.

[dallenwood]

Ive heard people use the words oilfield trash. I work in the field, I feel Im not trash, but if you want to see the capitol of oilfield trash, come to Williston ND! We have all this oil sitting underneath us and Williston is so trash, Im ashamed to live here.

[AryanKnight]

What'th, apparently roomers that T.B.Pickens is in the pocket of the ruthless oil-barons Rockefeller/Rothschild are true, -as the Dakota/Oil-fields are slated to produce enough high-quality crude-oil to supply all of the USA for the foreseeable future! The people of N.Dakota need to be extremely cautious of the jewZionist Bank'sters honing-in on their land; -caution the past century shows the infamous Rockefeller-mafia thinks nothing murdering anyone that get's in their way...!!!

[benjaminlately]

If you are talking about reservations they are getting the same or more for the oil found on their land.

[blue123la]

@bruceok

Who makes the big chunk and in what percentage is that ?

I know the landowner, government, drilling company, operator ,... each get a share but who gets the most out of it and in what ratio ?

[tripledracingteam]

Let's Drill EVERYWHERE IN THE Us