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Oil boom resurrects North Dakota ghost town

Boston Globe -- For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.

As Dore's only residents, they lived in a ghost town on the desolate northern Plains. But now the couple has neighbors -- and lots of them. The all-but-forgotten former farming village has been reborn as a hub of oil activity. And it may not be the last abandoned settlement to be resurrected from the dust.

"We knew it was inevitable," Kerry Finsaas said of the oil boom that has enveloped the region. "We're making the best of it, but it doesn't mean we like it."

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These days, a century after its founding, the area is abuzz with development. Oil rigs drill in the distance, and mile-long tanker trains are topped off with crude ..

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Submitted May 10, 2012 By: BurntOrange

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min_fuel Champion Author Philadelphia Posts:1,956 Points:722,545 Joined:Jan 2008	Message Posted: May 17, 2012 12:52:38 AM Ignore min_fuel Report Abuse Part of the Bakken oil formation, about 1 trillion plus barrels of recoverable oil
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Goody2317 All-Star Author Wilmington Posts:680 Points:617,155 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: May 10, 2012 11:57:56 PM Ignore Goody2317 Report Abuse At least North Dakota knows how to create jobs, unlike Obummer.
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