Truck driver Paul Whitcomb moved his family up from Arkansas to take a job in Williston’s booming oil fields. Unable to find housing, he, his wife, four children, three dogs, one cat and four kittens live year-round in their RV. “We expected extremely hard living circumstances and that is exactly what we got when we moved here,” he says. He’s leaning Republican, and has a warning for environmentalists who may come to Williston: “People will probably want to tie you to one of the trees you wanna hug.”Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail