North Dakota: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The Governor licks Trumps Ass and more then likely she is getting kickbacks in the millions and a few dead workers will not phase him South Dakota is run same way with an even more Trump Ass licker

Who's here after the pipeline protests???

That wood chipper is an AMERICAN Hero! Steve Buscemi is a MONSTER!!

Almost choked on my food at the possum

As a North Dakota resident, life has never been better since governor Burgum. This was made a year before his election.

"we only care about results" is how the ENTIRE stock exchange works.

These vids are like topical extended-length late-night monologues without the interview guests promoting their record/movie/book. For a long time, I’ve recorded Kimmel and Colbert so I could watch the monologue and delete the rest. These topics are better chosen, too, as they can use the lengthier time to dig deeper. 60 Minutes show with one speaker and one topic per episode. Adding the comic asides during the rat-a-tat pace is brilliant. Rock on, John. Even when they’re old, they’re often topical.

Well I guess the US government are to busy sending tax payer money overseas to pay for more OSHA inspectors.

Fuck north and south Dakota

one aspect why they are so great, I'm watching this vid 8 years later, pretty cool for a "weekly news" series. Thanks!

OASIS owned and maintained the equipment, and should have been 100% accountable. Legal loopholes are sh!tty.

I lived in N. Dakota for 7 years. Fargo police are absolutely the worst (Good luck getting justice). Drug overdoses are all over the place and the level of racism is insane ( you’ll feel better living in 1950 Alabama). F*ck this state.

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Every time, they even the score in the media and informed people receive less. It's a hefty tax on the information wealthy. Information doesn't pay. Being the good guy doesn't pay. This is an inherited wealth system. I'll just play dumb and take the trades and steel and sacred geometry and Occultism then let the rich slave away to provide. Oops! Too late. I already did.

When you think about it oil can and has been a curse to those who have it, unless your Norway 🇳🇴 in that case your alright.

the gubmint only needs "The Appearance Of Accountability" cause they work for the rich oil well owners..

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Why are you here reading comments? Are you that bored? Go to bed.

It’s almost like North and South Dakota should be one state, and California should have a North and South…

As someone writing a horror story set in southwest North Dakota with the key theme being a critical commentary on corporate malpractice, greed, and general corpo incompetence, I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing contextually that ND has had these serious issues with oil companies.

On the one hand, I could potentially bring light to a real life situation through entertaining, realistic-enough fictional media (again, hopefully, if I stick with my goals and am consistent with writing quality), but on the other hand, actual human suffering and death is always terrible, and it sucks that the people of North Dakota have to deal with this real issue. Idk if anything has been done about this since this video aired, but I hope that at least some progress has been made.

Sounds like all the mines in Australia… the workers get paid lots because they might die. Subcontractors, frequent accidents, etc.

fu*** up country is US

If we can’t regulate them then we need to FINE them. 200.000 doesn’t seem to faze them so make it 200 million. Then ENFORCE it. A few of these and they might regulate themselves. Also we could afford some inspectors.

Born and raised in ND. Don't give these people the courtesy of being kind. ND has the best trained racist, southern, republican (child molestor), viking, slave owner, drumph, ignorant people trained by a generation before them just as ignorant. These sheep are so imbedded in
the idea that they are so good because outsiders label them "nice and friendly". I left after
20 years and saw the cties, countries, blacks, gays, poor, druggie, homeless, oriental, welfare, budlight drinkers etc... Make no mistake about it, these people are the worst kind
of hypocrytes you'll ever see. Everything out of their mouths is kind--everything after you turn your back is completely opposite. They completely brought on the oil companies because it gave them the one chance they could be somebody (I mean rich). Money is the one thing they think is the only thing. The greedy fuckers will blame the rape of the land by oil companies for the damage--I'd be surprised if you could find a single one admit it was their own ignorant fault.

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Those farmers will sit there and bitch, but you can be sure they're busy driving pickup trucks, driving aggressively, and complaining about the price of gas. It's easy to become an activist when it directly affects you. Let's hear about their position on global warming before we feel sorry for them.

50 different states with 50 different types of laws is starting to look like a very bad idea.

On the silver-lining side, statistically, most of the deaths would be Republicans, so...an unseen benefit

I'm a little late here. But it would have been nice to talk a bit more and go into some detail about what it's done to the water their and how people were able to light the water coming straight out of their faucets on fire. The fracking has been disastrous not only for the community and the many killed or injured but also disastrous for the tolls taken on the environment. Fracking is a bad idea, there never was a point in time when it was a good idea.

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"Fargo" almost entirely takes place in Minnesota, not North Dakota.

Fun fact: "de" means "of" in french. So "southdeCanada" actually does mean "south of Canada"

I live ~relatively close to North Dakota & it has been some time now, but I recall in the early/mid-2000s when the price of Oil went through the roof. The Oil industry caused such a demand for labor, the State's economy just couldn't have prepared their supply of labor to handle the shock...(?) Why & how these insane contracts could arise, it's really quite obvious -- those businesses were assessing risk based on the circumstances they were working with; they wrote contracts to minimize their exposure to risk.

Does that make it right or wrong? I don't know; what I do know is that the United States Federal Government had (& has) a tremendous amount of data & employees knowledgeable with respect to everything involved in pulling Oil out of the ground. The Federal Government is also well aware of every State's entire population, all of their economic conditions at least on a month-to-month basis & a monthly year/year basis (realistically, it probably had that data week-week & weekly year/year).

The economic output that North Dakota would have been cranking out, regardless of State Regulators, it should have had alarm bells ringing across several different Agencies at the Federal Level forcing so many eyes on North Dakota, it's hard to understand why there wasn't Federal Government all over the place in North Dakota. I mean, I recall people who had gone through Minot & were consistently claiming you could get hired at a McDonald's in Minot making over $25/hr. (...in ~2005 dollars; so, ~$55/hr. in 2023 dollars) & stay there with a ~$300/mo. (~$800/mo. in 2023 USD) cost of living. People making $55K/yr. working at a McDonald's in ~2005 Minot, North Dakota...that would have been suspicious enough for basically every enforcement & regulatory branch of the US Government to have a look see what's going on there -- the ATF, the DEA, the FBI, the Secret Service, the SEC, the CFTC, the US Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, FEMA, DHS, the IRS, the INS, the NSA, the Office of the Post Master General, the Department of the Interior, the EPA, the DoD, the Peace Corps, the FAA, ...? the FCC, ...the DoE, ...NASA...(?), even someone representing the Coast Guard, why not?

Anyhow, the point is the Federal Government was a 3rd Party Observer that had all the information right at hand & should have reasonably known what sort of economic environment this was going to turn into. And rapid development by the Private Sector is perfectly fine...so long as the Federal Government just doesn't sit back & watch a State be completely overrun by that development. The US used to have labor recruitment efforts in the first half of the 20th Century -- they couldn't organize something like that...? The Army Corps of Engineers has been utilized to great success for rapid infrastructure development. The Department of the Treasury should have known there were going to be a lot of contracts being written in Bad Faith &/or without Consideration. Once the issue is determined to be the Oil boom, I mean... the EPA has never had any issue going wherever they please...they don't yield to State Agencies...?! All of these actions would have been pretty much guaranteed to be legally copacetic under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution...?

What is probably closer to reality though...is the Federal Government doesn't give a damn about Americans West of the Mississippi; not until you get to California or Washington. & Then West from there, Anchorage is important strategically, & Hawaii is too I suppose. As long as they remain operational. Unfortunately, that doesn't require the entire population of either State respectively.

North Dakota: How Is This Still A Thing?

I drove through North Dakota. The nicest part if the state is ruined by those drills/pumps/things...

I hope all the carcinogenic chemicals the illness they'll bring, the actual loss of life, will be worth it to the dakotans and their children. Nothing like your child's leukemia to take care of that fat oil rig paycheck.

Our rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity.

The fact that this company is called "Oasis" is an insult to the Gallagher brothers

While driving through North Dakota wit my best friend, we noted a sign that read “In the event of inclement weather please choose alternate route.”
Those stranded motorists of North Dakota must be quite literate.

Staying awake that long is the same as being on meth or other drugs.
You get confused, emotional, hallucinations because your eyes are not supposed to be open ..... FFS. Bad.

I honestly forget that North Dakota exists until someone brings it up 😂

And the shitty effing oil companies drill sideways under private properties.

"Oh, we're sorry. We must e hit a big rock and the drill went cattywhompuss.
Oops"

This auto played after Steve Buscemi married John Oliver to a cabbage haha love it

"The price of oil has dropped in the last year."

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Powerful corrupt people making up their own rules and getting away with negligence.

My Brother was one of the men that died in oil field

Gas is expensive now 😢

I have a slightly ridiculous suggestion.

When we were in Seattle last year, my father wanted to photograph the welding sparks at a construction site near where we were staying. He did this several days in a row. He noticed he was getting nervous looks, and asked someone about it.
"You from the government?" the guy apparently asked.
"No," my father replied, "I'm just taking photos of the sparks."
The guy laughed and said, "I don't think I'll tell the boss. He's been double-checking all the safety equipment since they saw you."

My point being, if you dress business-casual and carry a large camera, you can sometimes get someone's boss scared enough to follow the law. Even if you have no authority. Schrodinger's OSHA.