fracking
Cattle rancher/gravel pit owner Bert Hauge standing in for a light test last February at his newly dug (since I visited last year) gravel pit in New Town, ND. Shot for my ongoing project on the people of the Bakken oil fields.
Bert Hauge - New Town, North Dakota
In between my new job in Korea and having a blast in a new country, I've been chipping away at the edit from my most recent trip to the Bakken. This one is from my travels with truck driver Derek Cross of Dawg Hauling, for his midnight shift hauling water to a frack site. Probably some of the most fun I had the whole trip. Enjoy!
Trucker Derek Cross loads a hose onto his water truck at 3 AM after offloading water for a frack site.
I'm out in North Dakota this week continuing my personal project on the oil boom that's, coincidentally enough, the cover story of this month's National Geographic. I must be following the right story...
Anyhow, here's a shot from my dailies today - courtesy of a freshly fracked well. Some info for y'all: natural gas that rises to the surface along with the oil, etc. is often flared off as waste. Oftentimes it's not cost effective (natural gas prices are low) to capture it and pipe it out, or more likely in this case, it's impossible to dig the frozen tundra to lay a connecting pipe to send the gas away to a refinery.
More to come this week - stay tuned...
