Orano warns of financial problems at Niger uranium plant
The West African nation increasingly seeks new partners, such as Russia, in its mining sector.
Business Insider profiles Williston, North Dakota, a town that is booming due to the North American oil rush, but suddenly the town finds that it has very few women due to an inflow of men rushing in to fill heavy industrial jobs.
Williston sits above the Williston Basin, a sedimentary basin with rich deposits of potash and petroleum. Williston has been struggling to provide housing and infrastructure for the newcomers.
And with more men in what is becoming a rough, frontier town, the reporter learned that the few women who do remain feel threatened:
“This is like the pipeline days in Alaska,” Keaster told me as we huddled in her small stand and she brewed cups of coffee for drivers that pulled up to her window.
“It’s like 80 to one, women to men [sic], and I’ll admit to having my concealed weapons permit.” She finished making a cafe mocha for a bearded roughneck in an F-150 and turned back to face me. “As a woman, you can’t be too careful.” She shrugged. “It’s just a matter of time before something happens.”
3 Comments
George Pierce
Might be a new high speed rail line headed to there from Chicago loaded with the girls of the night.
Leonleon403
Time for all single women to run there then.The men will be looking at you through beer glasses!
Paul
Just the typical uneducated white trash coming to that god forsaken place, the oil exploraion is the same as the mining professsion in that in only attracts the bottom of society, uncultured filthy neanderthals.