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"Dark Side of Oil Development: Bakken Oil Boom Pumping Sexual Violence Into Fort Berthold Reser

  • Nikke Alex (Last Real Indians)
  • Jan 1, 2014
  • 1 min read

Synopsis: The current Bakken oil boom has brought much economic prosperity to North Dakota and has lowered North Dakota's unemployment rate to the lowest in the nation. However, since the approval of the 10,000 oil wells, "man-camps"--compounds of oil workers-- have materialized in rural areas.

 
 
 

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