Too Much Dust in Dickinson? -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

The faux-environmentalists are the last ones who should be complaining of too much truck traffic now that they have a) banned man-camps in Dickinson (increased vehicle traffic up the road to man-camps in Dunn County); and, b) killed the Keystone XL.

The folks I am referring to are quoted in the linked article.

Dickinson Mayor Dennis Johnson said while he was as concerned with traffic pollution, he was more concerned with dust pollution from dirt and gravel roads. The city has been looking at ways to get industrial companies to pave their parking lots, including drafting an ordinance that would require any business expanding their business by more than 50 percent to pave off-road parking.

The professionally-run man-camps will pave their sites if asked/required.

The concerns with flaring is a red herring as I have mentioned numerous times on the blog. Even so, private enterprise is working to resolve the issue. Click on "ONEOK" in the tags/labels at the bottom of the blog to see how one company is removing flaring from 750 wells.