North Dakota Oil Well Frac Water

I've been asked a few times exactly what it is I'm doing in North Dakota, so this last tour I took a video camera along with me. I didn't find too much extra time to take pictures but this is what I came up with. Keep in mind the weather this time was excellent, dry and dusty. Unlike the knee deep mud we had to deal with for most of May and June. Anyway, this is what keeps me busy and puts a paycheck in my pocket, at least for now.

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[DiamondChrome42]

so that's why lakes are going dry, they're stealing millions of gallons of water doing black operations of fracking

[FotoandT]

@DiamondChrome42 Please get your facts correct before you decide to comment. After fracking the water is recovered, processed and put back, it doesn't just disappear. Plus each water well has a specific allotment that can not be exceeded. From my experience there are NO lakes drying up in ND, the opposite is true, when it's not frozen most of the Bakken looks like a rice paddy.

[DiamondChrome42]

@FotoandT lolololol right dumbass, and the water that's recovered will be so contaminated you'll die drinking it

[FotoandT]

@DiamondChrome42 While very few of us will ever agree 100% on exactly how things should be done, we all have an opportunity to see how others do it. Whether we learn anything from that or not we do not have a right in the context of an Internet community to insult others. Your candle will not burn any brighter by blowing out others.....

[hagueblake]

i live in bismarck north dakota. all you low life out of staters that have came around the oil field and caused problems. Men getting raped and shit. i dont know where these fucks are from but we wont tolerate it in north dakota. 

[FotoandT]

@hagueblake The state of ND and the local towns are ill prepared for the influx of men and machines to this area. Don't blame the working stiff who simply is trying to provide for his family in the best way he knows how. The Bakken is the 21st Century Gold Rush and that fact means that along with the workers you are going to see a very unseemly side of humanity arrive with them.

[starforce224]

asterix,c'est toi?

[bucko60]

@JayGatsbyOdysseus i don't give a shit about gas mileage, and there's a lot more oil than you think. hybrids are for pussies as well.

[bucko60]

@hagueblake i agree. welcome to north dakota, now go home! haha!

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

I'm glad we found this oil and are not extracting it from the groung but this is just a band-aid on the real problem. We will still reach "peak oil" where we have maxed out half of the oil in the earth and are going down the back half. I live in north central Indiana and there are all kinds of Ram trucks and pick ups that people really don't need. No one other than semi drivers should be driving anything that gets less than 50 mph, a Toyota Prius Hybrid. Oil is only a short-term solution.

[schroyer90]

@polarisnuke your right i be here for a wile i have never heard any thing like that an i was living in WY now just out of Dickinson i got to Bismark 2 time a mounts to shop...he the kind of people that start shit for us HARD WORKING OIL MEN ...

[schroyer90]

@FotoandT i am in willaston i am working for a company out of Dickinson i make 35$ an hour 24/7 round clock for 6 days i sleep and eat in a f350 ford all i do is add chem to the well on flush for a frac crew ....