[thackney]

Care should be taken to develop the resource while keeping the Dakotas rural.

How do imagine that will happen? How can towns expand to handle another 50,000 oil workers and the multitude of others jobs to feed, house and otherwise provide services and stay rural?

[muawiyah]

North Dakota has limits ~ first, how many peeps can deal with the climate.

They may well be at the doorstep of that one!