[St. Louis Conservative]

Drilling engineers should be prepared for extreme cold. The climate of North Dakota was not unknown. We’ve been drilling and pumping oil in the frigid wilderness of northern Alaska and Prudhoe Bay for 40 years without major issues.

[Izzy Dunne]

it reverses what had been an inexorable decline

Somebody 'splain to this writer what "inexorable" means.

[ConservativeDude]

thanks for your posts, as always

[thackney]

[heiss]

shouldn’t NPR make documentary about the positive effect of global warming here?

[Vigilanteman]

Back when I lived in North Dakota, we always had a saying that ‘40 below was occasionally necessary to keep the riffraff out.’

[PJ-Comix]

I recently located a really good job for my brother in law in the the oil industry as a welder in North Dakota. The pay was great but, being as how he lives in Florida, he decided to wait on the job until next Spring. Going from balmy Florida to the arctic blasts of North Dakota can be brutal.

[US_MilitaryRules]

KOG is one of the companies doing business there.

[Will88]

Not sure this is much of a story. As has been said we pump oil in Alaska, and the Russians also pump oil in Siberia.

[thackney]

[Recon Dad]

There’s a series running on the Science Channel called “Cold Diggers”, it was on yesterday again. They follow MGM Energy and Nabors Drilling as they drill in the Yukon, well above the Artic Circle and Northern Alberta. It’s a 4 or 5 part series.

If you can drill there as they say. ND ain’t sh%t.

[Big Horn]

The roads are not very good.

[SoldierDad]

Fierce winters — where temperatures drop as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit . . . .

When I lived in Minot, ND from 1978 to 1983 I had the "pleasure" of experiencing a windchill temperature of -115. When the wind blows in ND in the winter, there is NO way to keep warm.

[blueunicorn6]

From a Canadian newspaper. Wonder if they would have an agenda?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Cold weather in North Dakota?
Bet they didn't even think of that!!