This is what's happening on the ground for local communities amid the oil and gas boom in the Permian Basin. There are positives and negatives. The income potential for local residents is huge, yet there are also labor shortages, bad roads and very expensive housing.
A dispatch from a region that's producing 4.4 million barrels a day. If the area itself were its own nation, it would be a larger oil producer than all OPEC nations with the exception of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. (read more)
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