“Whatever happened to the big North Dakota Bakken field announcement???”
It’ll be tied up in Enviro lawsuits for the next 20 years, with taxpayers yet again making Envirolawyers filthy stinkin’ rich.
Not true. Most of the Bakken is wide open for development. It is also a fairly expensive place with very long horizontal deviations and massive hydraulic fracturing required.
The Bakken will produce a lot of oil, but it isn’t close to being a new Texas ... and the US needs about three new Texas sized increments of production [at the peak in Texas production] to get close to independence. Don’t hold your breath.
How can it be tied up in court when so many of these oil rigs are being leased on private property? Some of these people were millionaires on their first royalty check.