For some, oil development has brought hardship

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Oil development brings hardship

By: Andrew Eckerson

RURAL MOUNTRAIL COUNTY — Joe and Karen Huber spent everything they’d saved to move back home to his love: North Dakota.

Now they feel like collateral damage to oil development.

Each working two jobs, they put money together to buy a quarter-section in the hilly country southwest of Stanley 10 years ago. They picked rocks, planted grass and trees and built a nice, modest home and outbuildings. They had a few years to savor the solitude and the benefit of their hard work.

In the last year, it all changed.

Two wells have been drilled nearby. A third will soon be drilled less than 450 yards from their front door, the massive grinding rig and hundreds of semi trucks all within sight, smell and earshot of their kitchen window.

They see gas flares from other wells all around and a new power line dominates their view to the south, just past their fence.

The roads to their place are pounded down to the base and rocks the size of footballs poke through the potholes.
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Ten years ago, Joe and Karen Huber spent everything they'd saved to move back to his home, North Dakota. Amid the oil boom, Huber feels helpless to preserve the solitude he worked so hard to enjoy.
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1. WTH, nobody cares?