Bakken
5 Things I Learned About Managing My Money From Covering The Oil Bust
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Over the past year, I’ve gotten a lot of unexpected financial advice while covering the oil bust. So I’m passing those tips along to you.
Inside Energy News
Inside The Boom: Lawyers, Oil Workers And Me
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Even though I look different than most oilfield workers, we’re all here for the same reason.
Featured in Series
Inside the Boom: I Can’t Escape It!
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Looking at crude oil and shale cores at the North Dakota Heritage Center.
Bakken
Inside The Boom: A BBQ With Bakken Crude
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Bringing a bottle of Bakken crude oil to a barbecue.
Inside Energy News
Inside The Boom: Sleeping In My Car
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I was up on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota last week doing some reporting on how the oil boom is influencing the election for tribal chairman there. I was kind of winging it and didn’t have a plan of where to stay that night. I knew it might be hard to find a hotel room, but figured there’d probably be space in the tribally-owned casino. Wrong. Every single hotel in New Town was full.
emily guerin
Inside the Boom: Homework
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It’s hard to be separated from the people you love–especially when it’s for work.
Inside Energy News
Inside the Boom: Biking The Oil Patch
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The Maah Daah Hey mountain biking trail goes through the heart of the Badlands–and the oil boom.
Inside Energy News
Inside the Boom: Enough Already!
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Highlighting original (and tired) coverage of the oil boom.
Inside Energy News
Inside the Boom: My Family’s Oil Patch Tour
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Last weekend my parents and brother came to visit from Massachusetts. They’d never been to North Dakota before, so we headed up to the oil patch (I like to make sure visitors see where their energy comes from, so later that week I sent them on a coal mine tour). As we drove north towards Watford City, rain started spattering the windshield. Huge trucks whipped by in the other lane, sucking our little car towards them. The sky was slate gray, and natural gas flared along both sides of the road. “It kind of feels like we’re driving into hell,” my mom said.
