Well, my question actually is this : does such a boom bring in more jobs than the oil jobs themselves?

Construction for new houses, food and catering, education, entertainment, transportation, IT infrastructure, city planning...etc.

Why aren't we hearing about this more as a solution to unemployment? Is it because it's not there or not big enough?

Surely, if it was so promising, the employers would advertise in highly unemployed areas to recruit people, right?

Can ND be another Free State project target?