{"id":1984,"date":"2014-11-24T07:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2014-11-24T07:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T12:21:40","slug":"where-oil-and-politics-mix-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Where Oil and Politics Mix – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where Oil and Politics Mix – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TIOGA, N.D. \u2014 In late June, as black and gold balloons bobbed above black and gold tables with oil-rig centerpieces, the theme song from \u201cDallas\u201d warmed up the crowd for the \u201cOne Million Barrels, One Million Thanks\u201d celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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READ PART 1<\/b>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Downside of the Boom<\/h3>\n

North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances.\u00a0NOV. 22, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

The mood was giddy. Halliburton served barbecued crawfish from Louisiana. A commemorative firearms dealer hawked a \u201cone-million barrel\u201d shotgun emblazoned with the slogan \u201cOil Can!\u201d Mrs. North Dakota, in banner and crown, posed for pictures. The Texas Flying Legends performed an airshow backlit by a leaping flare of burning gas. And Gov. Jack Dalrymple was the featured guest.<\/p>\n

Traveling through the \u201ceconomically struggling\u201d nation, Mr. Dalrymple told the crowd, he encountered many people who asked, \u201cJack, what the heck are you doing out there in North Dakota?\u201d to create the fastest-growing economy, lowest unemployment rate and (according to one survey) happiest population.<\/p>\n

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Where Oil and Politics Mix – NYTimes.com. TIOGA, N.D. \u2014 In late June, as black and gold balloons bobbed above black and gold tables with oil-rig centerpieces, the theme song from \u201cDallas\u201d warmed up the crowd for the \u201cOne Million Barrels, One Million Thanks\u201d celebration. READ PART 1 The Downside of the Boom North Dakota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1399,331,1396,1395,1397,1398],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-bakken-shale-formation","tag-fracking","tag-halliburton","tag-north-dakota","tag-oil-boom","tag-tioga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}