June 4, 2015
KFYR Much of the crime (click here) that has been happening in the state is being fueled by drug trafficking in the Bakken. The organized criminal activities are spreading beyond Williston and is affecting the rest of the state and Montana.
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and Acting U.S. Attorney Chris Meyers held a press conference to announce their plans to stop criminal activities.
Stenehjem and Meyers announced the formation of the Bakken Organized Crime Strike Force. Fifty agents will be combating the rise of cartels, human trafficking, drug and weapon trafficking, white collar crimes and the rise of cartels.
Many people moved to North Dakota to cash in on the oil industry, including criminals.
Meyers said: "We're going to focus on the worst of the worst criminals in the Bakken. To do that effectively and efficiently we have to work together."
The crimes are crossing Indian reservation, state and country borders...
June 3, 2015
WILLISTON, N.D. - North Dakota (click here) oil regulators ordered small, privately held Zavanna LLC to shut in oil wells near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers on Wednesday after more than 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) of rain raised flooding concerns.
The state's Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) said it was concerned that the confluence, near the state oil capital of Williston, could exceed flood stage levels of 22 feet (6.7 meters) by this weekend after Tuesday's rainfall, which easily surpassed the record of 0.9 inch (2.3 cm) set in 2002.
Denver-based Zavanna, which produces roughly 10,000 barrels of oil per day in North Dakota, typically keeps 15 wells near the confluence shut in during May due to flooding concerns. The state's order on Wednesday effectively forces the company to keep four of those wells closed for the foreseeable future. The company is voluntarily choosing to keep the additional 11 shut....
Those damn environmentalists are never right in their opposition, huh?
About 17 miles of the Yellowstone River (click here) flows through North Dakota
before it joins the mighty Missouri River. This stretch of river, along
with its confluence with the Missouri River, remain very historically
significant. The Lewis and Clark expedition pondered their path at the
confluence area. Should they travel up the Yellowstone, which according
to the native peoples, provided good passage to the Columbia River, or
should they remain on the Missouri, as directed by President Thomas
Jefferson? They chose the Missouri, but Captain Clark and some of the
expedition followed the Yellowstone to the Missouri on their return trip
in 1806. Lewis wrote of the beauty near the Yellowstone river: ". .
. I had a most pleasing view of the country perticularly of the wide
and fertile vallies formed by the Missouri and the Yellowstone rivers,
which occasionally unmasked by the wood on their borders disclose their
meanderings for many miles in their passage through these delightfull
tracts of country. . ."
KFYR Much of the crime (click here) that has been happening in the state is being fueled by drug trafficking in the Bakken. The organized criminal activities are spreading beyond Williston and is affecting the rest of the state and Montana.
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and Acting U.S. Attorney Chris Meyers held a press conference to announce their plans to stop criminal activities.
Stenehjem and Meyers announced the formation of the Bakken Organized Crime Strike Force. Fifty agents will be combating the rise of cartels, human trafficking, drug and weapon trafficking, white collar crimes and the rise of cartels.
Many people moved to North Dakota to cash in on the oil industry, including criminals.
Meyers said: "We're going to focus on the worst of the worst criminals in the Bakken. To do that effectively and efficiently we have to work together."
The crimes are crossing Indian reservation, state and country borders...
June 3, 2015
WILLISTON, N.D. - North Dakota (click here) oil regulators ordered small, privately held Zavanna LLC to shut in oil wells near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers on Wednesday after more than 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) of rain raised flooding concerns.
The state's Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) said it was concerned that the confluence, near the state oil capital of Williston, could exceed flood stage levels of 22 feet (6.7 meters) by this weekend after Tuesday's rainfall, which easily surpassed the record of 0.9 inch (2.3 cm) set in 2002.
Denver-based Zavanna, which produces roughly 10,000 barrels of oil per day in North Dakota, typically keeps 15 wells near the confluence shut in during May due to flooding concerns. The state's order on Wednesday effectively forces the company to keep four of those wells closed for the foreseeable future. The company is voluntarily choosing to keep the additional 11 shut....
Those damn environmentalists are never right in their opposition, huh?
