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Culbertson, other Montana towns, rush to keep pace with Bakken spillover

No vacancy. Road closed. Help wanted. It’s hard to find a street in this tiny northeast Montana farm town without at least one, if not all three, signs on display.

The fast, relentless pace of the Bakken oil boom has left this community of 1,000 short of breath. There is development at the end of every street.

"All the stuff at that end of town is frack sand," said Mayor Gordon Oelkers, pointing east to where trucks servicing horizontal drilling rigs show up empty and leave full all day long.

"Then, across the railroad tracks, there’s a 110-unit United Grain facility. We also have a 300-unit extended-stay motel going up. A 40-unit extended-stay motel opened last year. And there’s a 100-unit motel proposed."

By Tom Lutey

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/culbertson-other-towns-rush-to-keep-pace-with-bakken-spillover/article_15d28677-c9b3-54cc-8731-ba60e39d540f.html#ixzz31K9ZFNDG

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