The Bakken bust – It could be coming soon to a town near you

Since Montana is home to the largest Superfund site in the nation, you’d think its politicians and state agencies would have learned something about the transience of resource extraction booms and the long-lasting effects of the environmental, social and economic busts that follow them. But as oil and gas development along the now-booming Bakken Formation shows, the lure of fast money overtakes prudent public policy and–surprise, surprise–there appears to be no partisan divide among the development cheerleaders that our top politicians have become.

by George Ochenski

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