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WLL transcript.  SeekingAlpha.com. One of many analyses.


RBN Energy: How shale oil affects gasoline

Earnings: Statoil reports today; income up 4% compared to 3Q11;

Early look at Dickinson's projected growth; report/study will wrap-up next month;

“Dickinson is growing, I’m sure you’ve seen it,” said KLJ representative Thomas McMurtry, who is based out of the firm’s Bismarck office. “The city is at about 20,000 to 24,000 people today, We’re planning on it going to about 40,000 to 42,000 over the next 20 years, but the bulk of that growth is in the next 10 (years).”

Another look at Dickinson's growth; how to deal with it;

“One thing is for sure, you can never make predictions absolutely accurate, so we hope to undershoot more than overshoot with the goal to avoid negative outcomes later,” he said. “One of the big things is making sure that we have temporary housing to serve temporary workers, so we try to utilize things like crew camps and mobile housing to serve temporary needs and not have permanent structures left behind when those workers leave.”

Stark County officials have refrained from approving new subdivisions until the more than 100 already in the county are at least 65 percent full.

“We’re in a good position now and we don’t have any vacant subdivisions,” said Jay Elkin, Stark County commissioner. “We have denied some subdivisions for various reasons, but one of our greatest concerns is that we want to allow those developers to develop the subdivisions that have already been approved before we allow for new growth.”

Energy impact grants: $2.5 million for housing for teachers in the oil patch; and for traffic safety; another $2.5 million to come in December;