The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown
Description
In the oil-rich communities of North Dakota, hydraulic fracturing transforms quiet prairie towns into boomtowns almost overnight. Through reporting from the ground, this book follows the workers, residents, business owners, and officials navigating a surge of money, jobs, housing shortages, social strain, and environmental risk. It examines the human and civic costs of rapid energy development, asking what happens when industry expands faster than local institutions can respond. Vivid and investigative, the account offers a revealing portrait of modern resource extraction and the communities caught in its wake.
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paperback
St. Martin's Press
Published Jan 1, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 9781250064929
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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