In Williston, North Dakota, an oil mining boom has brought tens of thousands of blue-collar workers to this once sleepy town. But the 21st century 'black gold rush' has also attracted black-market operators. Motorcycle gangs extort Williston's bars and strip clubs, while pimps net millions from prostitution.

'Black Gold Boom' Brings New Life To North Dakota An oil boom is transforming life in the western part of the Peace Garden State. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with Todd Melby of the Prostitution Rises In The New Wild West — North Dakota's Oil Country Oil boom towns have lots of men with lots of disposable income, and that combination has drawn prostitutes to the area. After Struggles, North Dakota Grows Into Its Ongoing Oil Boom The U.S. recently became the world's biggest producer of crude oil. The ongoing oil boom has transformed Great Plains towns like An employee at one of the oil firms talked with NPR about the complete transformation of Williston since the boom. In the last four years, the city has almost doubled in size. They used to build WILLISTON (AP) — When filmmaker Jesse Moss started hearing about the North Dakota oil boom that was creating overnight millionaires and drawing workers from around the country to a seemingly Extremists Next Door Documentary; North Dakota's oil boom. Over the past 10 years Williston has been at the epicenter of an oil boom in North Dakota which has fundamentally changed the New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota Breakthrough technology is allowing previously untapped oil to be drilled in the U.S., Canada and South America. And experts say that's moving the

What is life like in Williston today, now that the rush for jobs and the oil boom has slowed down? Since I made the film, the price of oil has dropped precipitously. As a result, the rate of growth has slowed — the boom has leveled out. Although people continue to come, it's much harder to find work. There have been layoffs.

As North Dakota's oil boom rages on, the number of babies being born has surged to a record high. Hospitals and clinics can't keep up with all the pregnant women, while schools are overflowing Built Up by Oil Boom, North Dakota Now Has an Emptier Feeling "We're overbuilt," said Marcus Jundt, a businessman who followed the boom to Williston and owns several restaurants here Blaire Briody wrote a new book about being a woman on the front lines of the oil boom in North Dakota, and explains that sexism is still alive and well. growing oil industry, and Williston was Director Jesse Moss's documentary, which is filmed in oil boom town Williston, N.D., is the story of the limits of religious faith in an oil boom town increasingly inhospitable to the hordes of MOUNTRAIL COUNTY, N.D. - For much of last year, Jeep Punteney was a casualty of the global oil price crash that halted North Dakota's petroleum boom. Crime In North Dakota's Oil Boom Towns Is So Bad That The FBI Is Stepping In. Katie violent crime in the state's oil-rich Williston Basin region increased by 121 percent between 2005 and

In Williston, North Dakota, an oil mining boom has brought tens of thousands of blue-collar workers to this once sleepy town. But the 21st century 'black gold rush' has also attracted black-market operators. Motorcycle gangs extort Williston's bars and strip clubs, while pimps net millions from prostitution.

The oil boom in the Bakken shale fields has touched off an explosion of growth and wealth on this remote wind-swept prairie. Big money is raining down in small towns. WILLISTON — When the oil boom hit Williston, people had no trouble finding employment, but finding a bed was another matter. Sign up for our email newsletters Load comments I Worked in a Strip Club in a North Dakota Fracking Boomtown I went to report on life in the oil fields and ended up working as a cocktail waitress. The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown [Blaire Briody] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Williston, North Dakota was a sleepy farm town for generations―until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston The Williston Basin will produce more than five billion barrels of oil by 2008. "This was the first major discovery in a new geologic basin since before World War II," James Key writes in Word & Picture Story of Williston & Area.. By 1952, Standard Oil of Indiana was building a 30,000 barrel per day refinery, he notes. 'Black Gold Boom' Brings New Life To North Dakota An oil boom is transforming life in the western part of the Peace Garden State. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with Todd Melby of the

Williston, North Dakota is situated in the center of the Bakken -- a geological formation stretching through parts of North Dakota, Montana and Canada that is the source of the eponymous Bakken oil boom. The Bakken oil boom is the biggest oil boom the area has ever seen and seven times larger than the previous boom in the 1980s, which lasted

Williston residents have seen their first glimpse of an award-winning documentary about the gritty side of life in the oil boomtown. North Dakota crude oil production unlikely to fall below 1 million barrels per day according to state's top oil and gas regulator Lynn Helms; Williston cancels all public meetings and gatherings Filmmaker Jesse Moss has done just that in his new documentary The Overnighters, which captures the human consequences of the oil boom in Williston, North Dakota. The Overnighters will see its national broadcast premiere on Monday night, June 29, as part of the new season of PBS 's documentary series POV (Point of View). WILLISTON, N.D. - Dave Van Assche didn't fret too much when oil prices started to slide in late 2014. The postal services business he had built over three short years was thriving, catering to The oil boom from 2010 to 2015 led to rapid growth for North Dakota towns like Watford City and Williston. Along with low levels of unemployment and high wages came increased rents, crime, and On Netflix: 'The Overnighters' paints portrait of fractured American Dream "The Overnighters" reassesses the American Dream. Photo courtesy of Drafthouse Films. By Ena Alvarado on February 25

Williston, ND, has already witnessed the boom/bust cycle firsthand; in the 1970s and '80s, the town experienced a significant oil boom, but the local economy crashed when falling oil prices prompted energy companies to leave the region, taking their jobs and money with them.

According to the headlines, North Dakota in the wake of the shale oil boom was the Wild West. "Bakken Booms and so Does Crime," read one AP headline. As the price of oil goes, so goes Williston, North Dakota. Now, though, the community located deep in the state's Bakken shale play is working to break free from the industry's boom-and-bust A few years ago, the oil boom brought jobs, workers and money to Williston, N.D. But the influx of young men also brought a rise in crimes like prostitution, drug trafficking, theft, and even murder. Climate Gentrification Documentary; North Dakota's oil boom. Over the past 10 years Williston has been at the epicenter of an oil boom in North Dakota which has fundamentally changed the

Oil: it runs your car, it makes men rich, and it starts wars.But sometimes the effect it has on small communities is the most provocative. After reading a bevy of contradictory media coverage of the current oil boom in North Dakota, my friend Skyler Swezy and I decided to head out to the prairie for a week and film what life is really like in a modern day boomtown. Film on those migrating to the oil boom screens in Williston WILLISTON, N.D. -- Filmmaker Jesse Moss wanted to tell the big story of life in Williston during an epic oil boom. Instead, he would be WILLISTON N.D. (Reuters) - Desperate for a fresh start, unemployed workers from all over the world have converged on North Dakota's burgeoning oil patch, seeking six-figure salaries and the