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North Dakota oil drilling slowdown means lost jobs

2009-03-20 06:49:00
Author: By James MacPherson, The Associated Press , The Jamestown Sun

BISMARCK — U-Haul trucks and trailers that brought hundreds of oil field workers and their families to Williston over the past few years are now headed in the other direction.

“It is a good indicator of what’s going on here, no doubt about it,” Kent Horob, owner of one U-Haul center in town, said about the change in his business. “Last year, it was pretty overwhelming — everything was coming in.”

The workers are leaving because of slipping oil prices and slowed drilling in North Dakota’s oil patch.

Marie La Veaux, an employee at the town’s other U-Haul rental center in town, said there are four reservations this week, all for outbound moves.

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