Even with the oil industry slow down in the Bakken, the slack off in drilling activity, North Dakota still has some of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.
It shouldn't come as much of a shock that North Dakotans are Googling 'oil jobs' more than any other occupation, but what some other state's residents are searching for might.
John Oliver's 20-minute segment on North Dakota's oil industry has gone viral the past few days. Fargo's Sky Digital Advertising is responding to the HBO commentator in a big way.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York is introducing new legislation that would require railroads carry crude oil in newer, safer containers within 2 years, a full year sooner than new regulations introduced by the Department of Transportation.
Will this trend continue with the down-grade in the number of drilling rigs in the state? We're talking about the migration of people moving into North Dakota. This survey reports on where people are moving. And we all know it was for work in the oil industry.
It seems as though these types of accidents are happening more frequently or they are getting more attention. The fact that Bismarck and Mandan have tracks going through the area, this is a report that we should all be concerned about.