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The Williston Experience

2015

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As the United States sinks to the bottom of a housing-collapse recession, Williston flames into the only hotspot of economic growth in the country. While the oil-rich subterranean ground is blasted apart with new fracking techniques, down-on-their luck people pour into Williston — hoping to strike it rich and turn their lives around. Everything is maxed out. Walmart’s parking lot is a shantytown of RV’s, rent prices quadruple as inflation soars and money changes hands fast and furious. For many locals, this is what they’ve been waiting for! Another chance to get rich, to fleece the newcomers and oil companies alike. Everyone wants a piece of the action and the townies who run the local government, expect bribes and practice extortion at every opportunity. As in Washington D.C., as in Williston, N.D. This is a story of boomtown greed.

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