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Obama XL Decision Is Hurting Glasgow, Mt

Mike

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Montana’s proximity to North Dakota has put many towns and cities in the odd position of being affected by energy development without reaping the benefits of an increased tax base. Towns along roads that lead to North Dakota serve as pit stops for oilfield workers. Their hotels are full; construction is constant. But without the tax revenue, many roads are crumbling from the increased traffic.

In Baker, housing prices have skyrocketed as oil workers increasingly seek housing outside of North Dakota’s tight market.

“A four-bedroom costs $4,500 a month now,” says Julie Parent, a resident of Baker. “It’s making it to where if you don’t have someone in your family in the oil industry, you can’t afford to live here.”

And it’s true as far away as cities like Glasgow, Montana, which is about 150 miles from the center of North Dakota’s boom but still houses many of its workers and is seeing more trucks pass through its downtown every day.


“Right now we’re basically struggling with having the impacts from being so close to the Bakken without any of the revenue,” says Betty Stone, the owner of the Cottonwood Inn in Glasgow and the head of Two Rivers Economic Growth. “It’s taxing our infrastructure.”

But unlike the Bakken development, which is mainly enriching North Dakota, the Keystone could bring more of the same kind of growth to places like Glasgow and Baker while also increasing tax revenue, an appealing idea for many in the state.

Estimates vary as to how many jobs Keystone could create. The U.S. State Department, which would have to issue the cross-border permit for the pipeline, estimates that only 50 or fewer people will be required to maintain it. But during the construction, the pipeline could bring thousands of temporary but high-paying jobs to towns like Glasgow.

The pipeline would also boost tax revenue through each county it passes. In Valley County, where Glasgow is located, the pipeline’s first year of operation is expected to generate $7.35 million in taxes, nearly half the county’s current property tax revenue. In Fallon County, where Baker is located, the pipeline will bring $4.5 million to the county’s coffers, or 64 percent of its current property tax revenue, according to the State Department. Baker could also get some energy infrastructure of its own. TransCanada has agreed to build an “on-ramp” in Baker, to feed up to 100,000 barrels of oil from the Bakken into the pipeline.

That potential windfall has made the pipeline so attractive across the state that many towns started planning for its arrival, thinking those pipes sitting in North Dakota would be in the ground by now.

In Glasgow, Betty Stone added dozens of rooms to her hotel in anticipation of the pipeline workers. She says business is fine anyway, thanks to the trains that pass through Glasgow as well as construction on a major dam project.

Down the street, Glasgow schools superintendent Bob Connors also lamented the pipeline’s delays. Glasgow’s old elementary school is dilapidated and small, and Connors hoped the Keystone would help pay for a new one. The new school’s construction began anyway, but now taxpayers are bearing the expense.


Perhaps equally important for Glasgow was a new Astroturf field for the high school’s football team. Football is a way of life in these parts of Montana. Nearly every store has a Glasgow Scotties flag in the window. And the grass on the team’s current field is often hard or dead, thanks to upper Montana’s frigid winter temperatures.

“We have a 150-degree temperature variation here, so we need a type of facility that can handle that weather,” Connors says.

But without the Keystone, Connors had to ditch the field improvements and several other upgrade projects for now. Still, Connors says he’s hopeful the Keystone will be built eventually and his schools will get the upgrades they need.

 
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Anonymous

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No news to me... Lots of folks upset about the school going ahead and building without certainty of the XL being built.... BUT in our area folks are very progressive to education- and will usually support whatever the schools want/need....

Any other tidbits you and the Hypocrite have come up with in your stalking of me :???:
 

loomixguy

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Re the school, that's what happens when you count your chickens before the eggs have hatched. Hope and change is alive, but now not doing so well in Valley county. Buyer's remorse, maybe? But those big fat checks for calves that everybody's been getting will make everything alright, won't they?
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
No news to me... Lots of folks upset about the school going ahead and building without certainty of the XL being built.... BUT in our area folks are very progressive to education- and will usually support whatever the schools want/need....

Any other tidbits you and the Hypocrite have come up with in your stalking of me :???:

Stalking? The article was in Al Jazeera news. :roll: Plus, it's pertinent to the whole country at an economic factor. Obama & Jane Kleeb is pandering to the eco-greenies, holding off the economic growth for your area, you condone his obvious "Non-decision" decision, which is the same as agreeing with him.

You're not nearly important enough to stalk by anyone. You're a nobody. A BIG LIAR nobody at that.
 

loomixguy

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I'm ashamed to say that Jane Kleeb lives only 40 miles from me. She strikes me as a white Michelle Obola. I'm just thankful that the only place the voters of Nebraska sent her husband was home.
 
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Anonymous

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Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
No news to me... Lots of folks upset about the school going ahead and building without certainty of the XL being built.... BUT in our area folks are very progressive to education- and will usually support whatever the schools want/need....

Any other tidbits you and the Hypocrite have come up with in your stalking of me :???:

Stalking? The article was in Al Jazeera news. :roll: Plus, it's pertinent to the whole country at an economic factor. Obama & Jane Kleeb is pandering to the eco-greenies, holding off the economic growth for your area, you condone his obvious "Non-decision" decision, which is the same as agreeing with him.

You're not nearly important enough to stalk by anyone. You're a nobody. A BIG LIAR nobody at that.

You do a lot of stalking for Glasgow info looking for info on a "nobody"... :lol:

But it all gives me more material to show to some of my friends and neighbors (or anyone that questions why I don't back the Tea Party) to show them the type of folks they have crawled in bed with- and the tactics they use if you disagree with them !!

BUT-- you have been a little lax on the negative black posts and the "Nigga" word here lately, tho - that always gets them when I hit search and Mike for that and they can immediately see the ties of the KKK and the Tea Party...
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
No news to me... Lots of folks upset about the school going ahead and building without certainty of the XL being built.... BUT in our area folks are very progressive to education- and will usually support whatever the schools want/need....

Any other tidbits you and the Hypocrite have come up with in your stalking of me :???:

Stalking? The article was in Al Jazeera news. :roll: Plus, it's pertinent to the whole country at an economic factor. Obama & Jane Kleeb is pandering to the eco-greenies, holding off the economic growth for your area, you condone his obvious "Non-decision" decision, which is the same as agreeing with him.

You're not nearly important enough to stalk by anyone. You're a nobody. A BIG LIAR nobody at that.

You do a lot of stalking for Glasgow info looking for info on a "nobody"... :lol:

But it all gives me more material to show to some of my friends and neighbors (or anyone that questions why I don't back the Tea Party) to show them the type of folks they have crawled in bed with- and the tactics they use if you disagree with them !!

BUT-- you have been a little lax on the negative black posts and the "n-word" word here lately, tho - that always gets them when I hit search and Mike for that and they can immediately see the ties of the KKK and the Tea Party...

Do you show them your lies too? :lol: :lol:

OT wrote:
Just the cost that comes with having 2-4 % unemployment in the area- and lots of open jobs...The out of state riffraff comes
 

loomixguy

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Wonder if the Fatman's "friends" and neighbors know or realize that he's at best an Islamic sympathizer and an advocate for the murder of the unborn....
 

Mike

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OT wrote: (Sept-20140)
One thing about Montana is that we have our own built in protection against southerners, middle easterners, central americans, Africans and a lot of other foreigners from moving in- its called Montana weather... And with northeast Montana being the Little Siberia of Montana the riff-raff do not stay long...
 

Mike

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OT wrote: (Sept 2014)
Nope- really not anything to do with race, creed, religion or color-- it's just that most low life's of all type and those not truly dedicated to working can easily ply their same wares in warmer climates
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Both/All statements are absolutely true ...

I rest my case.............................

The above posts should have gone in the Separated Birth thread and I'm too lay to change them:

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=668315#668315
 

hopalong

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oldtimer wrote!!!!
BUT-- you have been a little lax on the negative black posts and the "n-word" word here lately, tho - that always gets them when I hit search and Mike for that and they can immediately see the ties of the KKK and the Tea Party...

Looks like the one claiming stalking is doing a lot of it on his own!!!!!

EH oldtimer
 
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Anonymous

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Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Both/All statements are absolutely true ...

I rest my case.............................

I don't know what case you are trying to rest unless you are trying to insinuate that all "riffraff"and "low-lifes" are black or minorities (which is what I really think you believe)--- BUT that is far from what I think... I've seen a whole lot more out of state white folk riffraff and low-lifes then I have any minority... And when it gets 20 Below up here- they are long gone back to where they come from or warmer hunting grounds down south....
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Both/All statements are absolutely true ...

I rest my case.............................

I don't know what case you are trying to rest unless you are trying to insinuate that all "riffraff"and "low-lifes" are black or minorities (which is what I really think you believe)--- BUT that is far from what I think... I've seen a whole lot more out of state white folk riffraff and low-lifes then I have any minority... And when it gets 20 Below up here- they are long gone back to where they come from or warmer hunting grounds down south....

Those posts go in the other thread where you said you never looked down on any outside oil workers. You tell so many lies it's hard to keep up where you put them:
http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=668315#668315

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 9:13 am Post subject: Reply with quote



Mike wrote:

smalltime wrote:
What do you mean by that "oilfield trash"?

OT has made several references to outside oilfield workers and the crimes that seems to accompany them. In short, anyone that's not from his neck of the woods and works in the oilfields. He doesn't like outsiders taking jobs from the locals.


BULLPUCKEY! You have never heard me run down the workers or the jobs that came from it...
You're just jealous because in your neck of the wood the "good old boys" and "the hood" folks too lazy to work...

See? You've lied again............. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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