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Hey, folks. How's it going?

And we have, it's going to be a little bit of a different podcast. It's a topic that has been in, kind of in my mind here for a few years now.

And part of the thing that really kind of brought it to life for me

was noticing that it's happening right in our backyard.

A couple of spots that we get to hunt adjacent to public land and everything else or on public land.

And it's not one of those things that I think a lot of people are aware of.

So what we're talking about is the oil companies getting, well, I'll go through the whole permitting process, but basically it's the oil

companies that are drawing water, pumping water out of our big sluys here to use for fracking.

Now, everybody out there is probably saying, well, sure, yeah, they're probably using some of that water, but, you know, they're certainly not doing it on public land, which is kind of what I always thought as well.

That's what I thought.

But there's a waterfall production area here right in the neighborhood and another waterfall production area that's about now seven, eight miles away.

The one that's right here next to the house, that was last year, last summer, they had a pump in over there.

And they pumped what, five, five, six feet worth of water down the shoreline on that place.

And so, okay, and then the other one over about seven, eight miles away, that's a little bit less direct.

They're not, and I guess the key to all this is, is that they're not actually pumping from the waterfowl production area, but they're pumping the same water that fills the waterfowl production area.

And so that led me down a road of contacting the game and fish department, who then had me contact the

North Dakota Water Board, who now I'm going to be contacting our zoning and permitting

local county here, and going to be contacting local representatives and everything else,

trying to figure out exactly how this is not just legal,

but how exactly it could even be possible to be pumping water out of a waterfall production area.

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