New CBR Terminal In The Powers Lake, ND, Area -- September 18, 2014

A reader sends me this link suggesting that a CBR terminal is being proposed in the Powers Lake, ND, area by Oasis. The link:

http://online.burkecountytribune.com/WebProject.asp?CodeId=7.7.1.1#

I can't reach the link -- it appears to require a subscription (I could be wrong), and I wasn't able to find another source. The reader is very, very reliable and I suspect this is legitimate.

I don't find anything else at the Oasis website; no hints of this at the September, 2014, corporate presentation.

This is an interesting location. Powers Lake is just a few miles west of the Cottonwood oil field, "owned" by Oasis. One can make the case that it was the Cottonwood field that "made" Oasis.

Also, from the same reader:

Groundbreaking for new OASIS Petroleum field office 1 mile northwest of Powers Lake. From what I have heard, there will be 45 offices located here, a large parking lot and possibly a maintenance shop. Looking southwest from Highway 50 - Enget Lake in background.

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The Oil & Gas Journal is reporting:

The US Senate approved Tom Udall (D-NM) and John Barrasso’s (R-Wyo.) bill permanently extending a US Bureau of Land Management drilling permit processing improvement pilot program that was established under the 2005 Energy Policy Act. It was scheduled to expire in 2015.

S. 2440, which passed the Senate by unanimous consent, would extend the program that was designed to help the US Department of the Interior agency deal with a drilling permit application backlog while balancing other duties, the senators said following the measure’s adoption on Sept. 16.

The program, which also established a dedicated fund, has helped streamline operations in BLM field offices in Farmington and Carlsbad, NM, and Rawlins and Buffalo, Wyo., as well as other Rocky Mountain states, they noted. Six more Democrats and six additional Republicans from the region cosponsored the bill.

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Cognitive Dissonance?

OPEN BORDERS/OPEN ARMS -- cheap labor.

Minimum wage movement.

The two "policy" movements seem completely at odds with each other. 

Minimum wage policies will help legitimate fast food restaurants, but the "day laborers" in southern California and the "undocumented" nannies in New York City will also be affected by the OPEN BORDERS/OPEN ARMS policies.

No comment; just trying to sort it out.