Energy Impact on North Dakota:

Link to Minot Daily News. (A "thank you" to a reader for alerting me to the story.)

This is an interesting article, providing a bit of insight into how one can make sense of the Bakken.

Biberdorf said he classifies Bakken boom issues into three categories: road, water or land use issues. Under each of those issues, he said, there's definitely other issues, for example, under roads there's issues including dust and aggressive driving.

At first glance this is a "feel-good" / human interest story, but there's a fair amount of good information and some interesting trivia.

For example: record number of wells on one pad? 18.

This is an interesting observation. Most folks just want the truck reliever routes to get the trucks off the other roads, but truck routes bring additional dividends:

He said the truck routes for bypasses are important for a number of reasons but what he's observed is they allow cities to move forward.

With all the truck traffic in Williston, he said it was hard for development to occur because they were always looking at the traffic. As the bypasses open up, he said the development of the city has become a little more clear where it wants to go.

A very interesting article at the link.