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JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — The Long, Strange Saga Of Jason Halek Comes To An End

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Well, it looks like Jason Halek (pictured above) is finally going to the pokey. Remember Jason? He’s the fellow who dumped more than 800,000 gallons of salty, oilfield wastewater into an abandoned oil well southwest of Dickinson in Stark County, North Dakota, and then attempted to cover it up. And his partner in crime, Nathan Garber, might be sitting in …

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JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — Who’s Looking Out For North Dakota? Surprise, It’s The U.S. Government. Good For Them. Good For Us.

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We return now to an old, familiar story, a story of some really bad guys doing some really bad things to the North Dakota environment (or enviornment, as the Bismarck Tribune spells it in really big headlines on the front page today — have you ever seen a worse newspaper?), getting caught by state “regulators,” then given a slap on …

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