state. messages, there s opportunity here. it s waiting for you and your family, the background, skills and expertise that you have. when you get here, you re going to find a quality of life, quality of opportunity, safe streets to live in. you re going to find a place that you can call home. with me now, north dakota republican senator john hoven, who served as governor between 2000 and 2010 when the boom began. senator, thank you so much for joining us. good to be with you, luke. so i want to ask you, research from a journalist named russell gold in the wall street journal says 15.3 hl americans live within the miefl an oil well as of 2012. a lot of these folks are within north dakota. obviously, you ve seen a huge economic boom to your state. are you comfortable with the environmental impact that fracking has had so far? yeah. we ve been doing fracking in this country since 1955.