Saturday, January 1, 2011

How To Trash a Township in Twelve Months

I am driving down the road and see a speed limit sign that says 55 MPH, in a hurry I drive 75MPH but that is okay, because when I get home I get on the internet and report to the ND State Highway Dept that I have violated the law. NOT going to happen, laws are made for reasons. But yet this is the system that our North Dakota Government is using to regulate the Oil and Gas Industry. Did anyone really think this would work? I guess our Congress did. Even when violators are found, nothing is done to them, the damage has been done, but no revenue from fines or violations are collected. These are TAX DOLLARS that are owed to the residents of North Dakota, god knows we pay our fair share of taxes.  Now it is these tax dollars that are PAYING someone to alloy this damage to our state. The damage it takes ONE company to do to our natural resources in ONE day will take mother nature NINE YEARS TO REPAIR, now I say mother nature because our ND State Health Dept or ND Oil and Gas are NOT doing anything to prevent, repair or planning for the future welfare of the State. We read endless reports of how well the Oil and Gas Companies are doing in North Dakota and how much their profits are soaring, everyone is flocking to North Dakota to make MILLIONS at our expense. Our roads are trashed, the counties and townships cannot afford to maintain the  extensive damage done to them. The school systems are overloaded and we are expected to accommodate the demands of the additional population overnight. Parents expect their children to be bussed  from their front door and taken to school.  People from out of state complain that our streets are not cleaned good enough for them. People are allowed to live in campers and run their sewer on the ground. And most important we should give them a place to live because they came here to work, knowing there were not places to live. All of this at the expense of the North Dakota Taxpayer. Now when that big Oilfield Paycheck and jobs are no longer here, who will be left to pay the taxes and expenses of the clean up? You guessed it, US, the born and raised residents of the State Of North Dakota. So why then should our ND State Government allow companies to not pay for damages done to our State and NOT regulate activity in the Oil and Gas Industry? Once again the State of North Dakota has proven that their decisions in rule making is not working, much like the decision to not abide to the CLEAN AIR ACT, and make their own rules there also.

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