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The Oil Boom Is Destroying Small Towns Across America

Sidney, Montana isn’t the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold — more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota.

But Sidney’s new-found prosperity doesn’t dull the sting of the recent kidnapping and apparent murder of a local teacher, Sherry Arnold. Authorities allege the 43-year-old Arnold was snatched from a Sidney street by two men among the thousands from across the country descending on the small towns of the Northern Plains in search of a slice of the boom’s multi-billion-dollar payoff.

Full Story: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-oil-boom-is-destroying-small-towns-across-america-2012-3

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