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Bakken Oil Boom Brings Growing Pains to Small Montana Town

July 14, 2014 /

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An influx of workers leaves housing scarce–and the jail full.

Although only a small fraction of Bakken wells are in Montana, where oil production peaked in 2006, nearby oil industry development and an influx of workers have maxed out the town’s water system, destroyed roads, and introduced drugs and violent crimes unheard of by generations of farmers and ranchers.

By Joe Eaton
Photographs by Ami Vitale, National Geographic

Full Story: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/special-features/energy/2014/07/140709-montana-oil-boom-bakken-shale/

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