Idyllic vistas? Drill Baby! Drill!
They will be drilling for decades!
America is blessed.
somebody smart will get a bunch of manufactured homes up there asap, then stay and build the real thing.
Building it, they will come.
This is good for the workers and the local economy, but some accomodations need to be made for the upcoming South Dakota (Extremely harsh) winter.
Idyllic vistas? Drill Baby! Drill!
Occupy North Dakota.
Looks like a prime opportunity for housing developers!
Go capitalism!!
Can’t Obama send his regulators in to solve this problem? /s
The housing inconvenience is strictly temporary. The permanent structures that will result from the influx of people and money will last a LOT longer. Especially if local governments (at all levels) SAVE some of that revenue, as Alaska has done (and Louisiana, my home state, failed to do).
Bull, study after study shows the men travel with the rigs, and there are only so many drill rigs. And campers are not really selling well with 4.00 fuel. Actually many of those companies making campers have gone belly up. Want work, get a job in the home community of these rigs and learn the job.
If these were Obama jobs, the New York Times would present this as Nirvana.
They will be drilling for as long as it makes economic sense to do so.
People who don’t live near or in boom towns/regions in the west where natural resource booms happen don’t understand how they rise ... and then collapse at 3X the speed of the rise.
The S&L banking scandal of the 1980’s (for which we taxpayers were bilked of $500B+ of money to bail out) was a result of the oil patch boom of the early 80’s. Everyone was saying that commodities (especially oil and gold) would go up and never come back down.
As we saw by 1986, this turns out to be a bad assumption.
Just think of the jobs which will be created when they build the infrastructure - sewers, water treatment plants, roads, etc. - and when they increase their local law enforcement. The local governments should get off their duffs and start to work on this, rather than wringing their hands.
What we are doing in South Texas is building a lot of 14-20 spot RV parks. They are usually full by the time they get them finished. Also some of the oil companies are building apartments.
Some of the workers are driving 100 miles one way to work.
The companies are giving them housing allowances.
Sounds like the Alaska Pipeline days in the late 70’s....temp housing is what’s needed. Back then, we had a mechanic make MORE in one year than our Company President (Caterpillar dealership)
I seem to remember OUR brilliant government buying thousands of trailers which were thought to be too demeaning for welfare recipients and their ilk (yes some taxpayers were involved) that just rusted out.
Refurbish them and let the field workers have them.
Hell, they won’t care, they are just working and paying taxes so what they think doesn’t matter anyway.
Wasn’t it Mayor ‘Ray’ that said the school buses were inadequate transportation to evacuate New Orleans they needed luxury buses with rest rooms etc?
...We need some land to build some soloons ...
... and bring in some dancing girls, we'll make a killing! ...
Think those lazy pathetic bums at the Occupy camps would think about working at one of these places? Probably not, it is work after all, and these people are completely against working for themselves. Why work when you can force the government to steal other peoples money?
They also need experienced truck drivers to haul this stuff around.
During construction of the Trans Alaska Pipeline in the 70’s, Valdez went from around 700 people to 11,000, and most of them were housed in man camps made of Atco trailers stacked three storeys high, near what we called “Terminus,” or the end of the pipeline.