Tweets from the collection JoshHarkinsonInND on tweetlibrary.com. http://tweetlibrary.com/marijane/joshharkinsoninnd http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/218120812228648961 From space, all the gas flares in North Dakota's Bakken oil field make it look like one huge city. Via @mwenergynews http://t.co/OJC1OtGf Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:17:12 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/218120812228648961 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/217006718750703617 You know you're in North Dakota if...an oil boom is going so fast that nobody will buy this shirt 'cause it's outdated. http://t.co/z7y1CZA2 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:30:08 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/217006718750703617 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216725422229041153 Today I was charged by a buffalo in Teddy Roosevelt National Park. So was Roosevelt in his day, though he was on a horse and holding a gun. Sun, 24 Jun 2012 02:52:21 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216725422229041153 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216391904617697280 The owner of Whispers strip club in Williston says the male to female ratio here is 120:1. Guess it's a good place to own a strip club. Sat, 23 Jun 2012 04:47:05 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216391904617697280 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216359302116544512 Owner of the Whispers in Williston, ND, says CNN story about his strippers making more than Vegas strippers not true. Doorman disagrees tho. Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:37:32 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216359302116544512 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216312531726241792 A huge gas flare at ground level at an unfenced well right along the hwy. Close as I could get w/o getting burned. http://t.co/U109n6I5 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:31:41 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216312531726241792 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216312004829392897 There are thousands of these flares around here. It's like Dante's Inferno. So much natural gas wasted. Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:29:35 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216312004829392897 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216305806705045504 Outside Tioga, ND, is "The Dome," a giant tent that looks like an airplane hangar. Rooms cost $110 and include meals and use of Dome gym. Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:04:57 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216305806705045504 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216271301264936960 A 2br house costs 650k here. Today's local police blotter: "Sidewalls of a wood grainery were stolen." Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:47:51 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216271301264936960 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216268341046816769 Basically, North Dakota is like Texas 3 generations ago. A ranching state becoming an oil state. Just subsitute "yeehaw!" for "oh geez!" Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:36:05 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216268341046816769 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216266494181507072 The Black Gold Suites. . . http://t.co/SpAfpm4o Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:28:44 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216266494181507072 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216266068656787456 I am told by many people that Las Vegas strippers have come to North Dakota because they can make $3,000/day--more than in Vegas Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:27:03 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216266068656787456 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216264455162564608 But they accidentally handed me a list of "guidelines for responding to the media." #4: avoid disclosing "extent of injuries/fatalities" Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:20:38 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216264455162564608 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216263929662410753 The Tioga office of Continental Resources, run by billionaire Romney donor Harold Hamm, would not talk to me Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:18:33 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216263929662410753 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216263377020928000 The Tioga Tribune reports today that it is moving to the town of Ray because it got evicted and can't find a new office in Tioga Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:16:21 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216263377020928000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216262972820041729 Last night the 2-pump Kum & Go gas station, which is building 6 new pumps, was hit by a drunk going 25 mph. Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:14:45 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216262972820041729 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216262491045494784 I ate lunch at Wildcatz Grill and am now sitting outside the newly built Black Gold Suites. Streets are clogged with fracking fluids trucks. Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:12:50 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216262491045494784 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216261989624844288 I'm in Tioga, ND, center of the new midwestern oil boom, where there's a hiring sign in every window and workers live in "man camps." Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:10:50 +0000 http://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/statuses/216261989624844288