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Boomtown U.S.A.

(photo by Robert Johnson, businessinsider.com)

From Stephen Rodrick’s piece on the oil boomtown of Williston, North Dakota, in the new Men’s Journal:

…for Joe’s crew, the next 14 hours are going to suck. Every joint of the pipe has to be filled with viscous oil-based drilling mud — the K-Y of drilling lubricant — before it is dropped in the ground. One of the Payzone guys describes it to me as “the Chernobyl of drilling fluid, the most chemical-laden goop known to man.” Now, it all has to come...