That's the kind of an impact they are having. The roads are 

 crumbling. City services are crumbling and it's all because of this impact. 

 We can't blame oil companies, or anybody, solely. We can't blame the 

 United" States or the American consumer. We all play a part in this. We 

 talked to a lot of people and this is what, conservatively, they decided 

 they need to try to catch up with this impact: 800 new single family homes 

 this year, in addition to about 1,800 courts or trailer homes; $300,000 

 immediately for new sewer system improvements unless they want to drink 

 sludge; $100,000 for additional water wells and water storage facilities; 

 $600,000 for a new police building to replace an already overcrowded 

 public safety building that was just built a few years ago; $7-8 million 

 for a new hospital; four additional doctors, including orthopedic surgeons, 

 obstetricians, internal medicine specialists and a pediatrician; $150,000 for 

 a 15 percent pay raise for city employees so they can keep those city 

 employees, so they can keep their cops. They are getting these 

 marvelously trained cops, state patrolmen and local patrolmen, who are 

 looking at the $12,000 or $15,000 they are earning as a cop enforcing the 

 rules of the land... that turn around and look at the $10 an hour they can 

 make as a roughneck on an oil drilling rig and they're going right off to 

 work on the oil rights. 



The mayor said you can buy any kind of drug, any kind of dope in 

 town, all you have to do is make the connections and you can get the 

 dope--hash, coke, whatever you want. The mayor himself said it was 

 available. Prostitution hasn't moved in but it is obviously right around 

 the corner. We talked to single women who said they can't even go the 

 Safeway without getting harassed by some oil drilling worker who has been 

 out on the oil drilling rig for 10 straight days. Women are afraid to walk 

 down the streets alone. We thought this was perhaps was a little bit blown 

 out of proportion so we took our environmental writer who is a woman, 

 Peggy Strain, and we walked into a bar with the photographer on one side 

 and myself on the other. The men in the place descended on her like 

 huns. I asked one woman what she was doing about it and she showed me 

 her companion, a 38 caliber pistol. So if you like Evanston and you don't 

 do anything, and if we as westerners don't do anything to try and 

 moderate this energy push... if you like Evanston in 1980, you'll love the 

 West in 1990. 



Those are sexy stories. You go into a town like Evanston and you've 

 got more stories than you can write and it's great if you want to get on 

 page one, as we all do. The challenge for us is to try and see what we 

 can do about that. How we can handle growth that involves us all? 

 There are several options to take. We can on the one side do what many 

 environmental groups have done for the past ten years and are only 

 starting to let up on now. That is, we can dig in our feet and say "No, 

 no we're not going to" and that's what the EMB is for with the power 

 block back in the East, the Supreme Court notwithstanding. However, I 

 think you are going to get shot out of the saddle. On the other we can 

 welcome all the eastern developers with open heart and say "You want our 

 coal? You want to build a nice little coal plant in my backyard? Sure, 

 for the national good, sure." Well that shoots any kind of quality of life 

 and any kind of heritage we have right in the back of the buttock. So 

 we're somewhere right in the middle. We've got to modify and moderate; 

 we've got to realize that development is going to come. But, we have to 

 have it come on our terms. 



