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Great Video: John Oliver looks at North Dakota’s deadly oil boom, asks polite residents to get angry

North Dakota is full of kind, polite people who are used to — even glib about — being ignored, said John Oliver on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. Or at least they were until the Bakken shale oil boom kicked off a few years ago. Yes, he said, "like Channing Tatum, North Dakota suddenly turned out to be a lot more interesting once it was covered in oil."

With the price of oil down sharply, the North Dakota petro-bubble has deflated a bit, but it is expected to rise again with the price of oil. "So maybe let’s use this pause to take stock of what the hell just happened to North Dakota," Oliver said. It wasn’t all good.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYusNNldesc

More from John’s "Last Week Tonight" http://www.hbo.com/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver

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