http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/21/a-tale-of-two-states/ Climate Change News & Analysis Wed, 15 May 2013 18:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/21/a-tale-of-two-states/comment-page-1/#comment-66039 William Yeatman compares North Dakota and California | JunkScience.com Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:53:52 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=11471#comment-66039 [...] A Tale of Two States – Yesterday morning, television magazine energyNOW! ran a surprisingly* good segment on the oil boom in North Dakota. Long story short: technological advances in drilling have made possible the recovery of vast reserves of oil, which has caused tremendous job creation. According to the segment, the average oil and gas worker makes $75,000, and there is a huge demand for labor. The whole northwestern part of the state is like a wild-west mining town. At one point, a supervisor at one rig offered a job to the energyNOW! cameraman. As a result of this oil rush, North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the country–a paltry 3.5 percent. [...]

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