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US Oil Boom: Boon or Bane?
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US Oil Boom: Boon or Bane?

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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North Dakota is on track to become the second biggest oil-producing state in the country, and this report goes to the towns sitting on top of that boom. Cameras follow the trucks, drilling rigs, and workers pouring into the Bakken region, along with the landowners and local officials trying to keep up with the money and the strain it brings. The film weighs the obvious upside, jobs and royalty checks in a state that barely felt the recession, against the costs showing up in housing shortages, strained infrastructure, and worries about water and land. Residents and business owners describe a place transformed almost overnight, while officials debate how long the boom can last and what it leaves behind once the wells run dry. It is a short, on-the-ground look at an energy rush reshaping a rural state, framed around one plain question: is this windfall worth what it costs the communities living through it?