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Investing in boom-town infrastructure

Just how long will the North Dakota oil boom last? Some say that there’s decades of oil in the ground. According to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Bakken oil boom is five times larger than the area’s 1980s oil boom. The Bakken area accounts for almost 11 percent of the all U.S. oil output.

Others say the methods are too disruptive, and that the whole practice won’t last but a few years. No one really knows.