Author: livingwithoilandgas
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Losing the Night Sky: How Oil and Gas Development Altered New Town’s Views
Norma: Norma Stenslie. I grew up in the eastern part of North Dakota, by Hope, and we met at Concordia college. I was a piano teacher most of the time after our marriage. We lived in western North Dakota all our married life. And now we are here. Napoleon. Jim: Jim Stenslie. Grew up in…
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Knowing Your Rights in Your Private Oil and Gas Lease
My name is Sue Beug. I live in Carbon County Montana. I guess my story starts when I was younger growing up in Colorado. We had oil and gas development…we have a farm that’s in what’s known as the Wattenberg field. It’s between Greeley and Denver, on the eastern slope of Colorado. My dad…
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Losing Community to Oil and Gas Development
“My name is Marilynn Hudson, and I live right here in Parshall, North Dakota. I’m 79 years old now. The oil development started…how many years has it been now? 2008, I think. So, we’ve been in it for about 8 years. And there’s been a tremendous change here.” “The Mandaree area of the Fort…
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Protecting a Montana Ranch from the Keystone XL Pipeline
“I’m Chuck Nerud, and I live north of Circle, and I’m a rancher. This is the only place I’ve ever lived. My grandparents started this ranch, and then my folks ran it, and now me. I don’t have any oil and gas development on my place now, but if the Keystone XL pipeline had been…
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Private Land, Public Minerals: The Problem with Split Estates
Karen: “I’m Karen Turner. I’ve been married to LJ for almost…46 years? 47? Anyway, a long time. I came out here teaching school in 1967, and we’ve been raising cows and sheep ever since.” LJ: “I’m LJ Turner. I was born here, and raised here, and I’ve lived all my life here. This ranch was…
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Witnessing the Oil and Gas Industry Turn the Fort Berthold Reservation Into “an Industrial Zone”
“My name is Lisa DeVille, and I am an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. I’ve lived my whole life in Mandaree, which is on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Over the past ten years, I’ve watched oil and gas turn our reservation into an industrial zone…it’s totally changed our way of life.”…