Dickinson officials: Hotels are for tourists too; Planning and Zoning Commission to discuss 3,000-worker facility
May 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
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Dickinson officials predict crew camps to handle housing of temporary oil industry workers will have lesser impact on local hotels than one business owner believes. Continue Reading
Tourism? How about talking about trying to get some businesses here like another grocery store or a Target? Not sure if you guys noticed, the shelves are bare and the prices are sky high around here. Has anyone driven on east villard lately all the way to interstate? The road is in need of major repairs, and yet we are talking tourism…
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I’ve pretty well crossed off western ND for any tourist trips for awhile.
Hard to get rooms, expensive too. Can’t eat in a reasonable time, can’t look away from the road for a second without becoming a hood ornament on a truck.
It’s just not the relaxing experience I’m looking for, about as relaxing as going to Chicago and driving rush hour.
As for the man camp. Might as well let them build the whole thing from the start. There is the need, if the potential is to build big you have to put the infrastructure there from the start. The impact from a man camp is less than the alternatives.
It’s getting to be long enough now with people living in every nook and cranny and in their cars and camping on the streets and so on. Yes, man camps cause problems, just substantially less problems than any other way to handle it.
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