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Oil Rigs Bring Camps of Men to the Prairie (Oil Jobs but no Housing in ND)
NY Times ^
| 11/25/11
| A.G. Sulzberger
Posted on 11/26/2011 10:00:18 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
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The motels are sold out for years, workers are sleeping in their cars. Some roughnecks are making $100K per year and they need more people as more drilling continues. Workers are coming from all over the country.
They will be drilling for decades!
America is blessed.
To: Titus-Maximus
somebody smart will get a bunch of manufactured homes up there asap, then stay and build the real thing.
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:03:09 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Titus-Maximus
Building it, they will come.
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:04:09 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Titus-Maximus
This is good for the workers and the local economy, but some accomodations need to be made for the upcoming South Dakota (Extremely harsh) winter.
To: Titus-Maximus
But now, even as the housing shortage worsens, towns like this one are denying new applications for the camps. In many places they have come to embody the danger of growing too big too fast, cluttering formerly idyllic vistas, straining utilities, overburdening emergency services and aggravating relatively novel problems like traffic jams, long lines and higher crime. Idyllic vistas? Drill Baby! Drill!
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:05:52 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
I thought they were in North D? But yeah, the winter is brutal
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:07:21 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: mylife
O noes! O noes! This is a totally new problem! No industry or locality has ever dealt with a sudden influx of workers before!
O big mama government, Do Something! Save them!
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:08:43 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Thomas Sowell. Accept no substitutes!)
To: mylife
Know what an “idyllic vista” means? NO PEOPLE. Yes, drill baby drill!
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:09:10 AM PST
by
jdsteel
(Give me freedom, not more government.)
To: Titus-Maximus
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:09:33 AM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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11/26/2011 10:10:37 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: yldstrk
I have a 38 ft motor home with push out for sale, complete with washer and dryer.
To: mylife
Looks like CHUs like I lived in in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not a bad way to live. Certainly better than living in dusty hangars and tents (also in Iraq and Afghanistan). I wonder if they need any IT support out there....
To: Titus-Maximus
Looks like a prime opportunity for housing developers!
Go capitalism!!
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:15:45 AM PST
by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: Conservativegreatgrandma
Get it on up north, lady!
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:15:52 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Future Snake Eater
They probably need it all, man.
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:16:39 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Future Snake Eater
I would rather sleep in the dirt than in those Army tents, packed full of soldiers.
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:18:20 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Titus-Maximus
Can’t Obama send his regulators in to solve this problem? /s
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:18:20 AM PST
by
umgud
To: yldstrk
Easier said than done. I’d love to find it a new home. It just sits in our drive as a yard ornament.
To: Titus-Maximus
"The motels are sold out for years, workers are sleeping in their cars. Some roughnecks are making $100K per year and they need more people as more drilling continues. Workers are coming from all over the country." The housing inconvenience is strictly temporary. The permanent structures that will result from the influx of people and money will last a LOT longer. Especially if local governments (at all levels) SAVE some of that revenue, as Alaska has done (and Louisiana, my home state, failed to do).
To: Titus-Maximus
Bull, study after study shows the men travel with the rigs, and there are only so many drill rigs. And campers are not really selling well with 4.00 fuel. Actually many of those companies making campers have gone belly up. Want work, get a job in the home community of these rigs and learn the job.
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posted on
11/26/2011 10:28:15 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters.)
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