Perhaps you shouldn’t trust the reportage of a British tabloid to be the last word on what is happening in in NoDak.
Some simple googling will turn up local news reports.
http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/10488/
I wasn't. That was what was presented and that was what was under discussion. If you wanted to introduce additional information you could have done so before. But it's ridiculous to expect anyone to do a top to bottom investigation of a story before commenting on an article in a discussion forum.