Sentence examples for drilling towns from inspiring English sources

Apartments are scarce and expensive, and the economy, while strong, is not growing at the swift pace of drilling towns in western North Dakota, where cashiers can earn $20 an hour and fast-food workers can be paid thousand-dollar signing bonuses.

By The New Yorker December 15, 2010 For some of us, there are few things more exciting than an interactive map from the New York Times, and this week they've posted a doozy, which pulls together census data and let's us check out things like racial, economic, and educational demographics drilled down, town by town and block by block.

Oil drilling in town?

Unfortunately, there always seem to be fire drills between town hall meetings that require restating and resetting expectations down through the ranks of the organization.

Since this 2013 drill, the town council has been locally promoting the fact that the population and the municipal services will be moved several weeks before a rockslide, as soon as the likelihood of its release is considered certain.

Three months later, a landowner who had leased 377 acres of land to a gas company for drilling sued the town, arguing that only the state could regulate natural gas drilling.

The outright ban on in-town drilling by Fort Collins' City Council earlier this month also was immediately called illegal by Hickenlooper.

I'm not going to call upon the "fracktivists" across the nation to join me in a fight against the drilling in my town.

Sanford's town board has come down largely on the pro-fracking side, even leasing land to a natural gas company for drilling within the town and passing a resolution urging state lawmakers to allow fracking to proceed.

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Earlier this week, another state judge upheld a drilling ban in the town of Dryden in Tompkins County.