Tag: flaring
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Oil and Gas Development’s Impact on Fort Berthold
My name is Thomas Abe and I live on Fort Berthold and am an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes. I am an instructor at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. For the past eight years prior I taught chemistry, human anatomy and physiology, and environmental science mostly. Where I live is in the epicenter of what is…
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A Cycle of Spills and Lies From the Oil and Gas Industry
“My name is Bob Arrington and I live here in Battlement Mesa. A lot of my experience comes with the fact that I’ve seen many accidents related to oil and gas. I’ve been involved with the spills, witnessed a major spill and there is a helplessness because they don’t tell the truth about the magnitude…
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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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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.”…
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An Unexplained Tumor: The Mysterious Health Impacts of Oil and Gas
“My parents worked in the oilfield. My husband worked in the oilfield. We knew what oil drilling was like in the 80s and 90s. We just didn’t understand how different it would be, when the rigs came in this time.” “The first thing was the blowout. That was our first indication that this…
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Drilling, Flaring, and Ranching
“I have no idea how many wells are on our land. Many, many wells.”