Halcon To Build Out CNG Facilities, Hawk Clean Fuels -- December 9, 2014

From the press release:

Halcon Resources Corporation today announced that it has commissioned its first compressed natural gas facility through its subsidiary, Hawk Clean Fuels.

This CNG facility is serving the Company's operations in its El Halcon area in East Texas and is being used to displace diesel fuel used in drilling operations. Halcon believes using CNG to displace diesel fuel used in drilling operations is not only better for the environment, but should also result in a nearly 50% savings on fuel costs. The Company expects to build similar facilities to service its operations in the Williston Basin in 2015.

Since the discovery of El Halcon two years ago, Halcon has drilled over 80 wells in the play, and believes it has de-risked its entire 101,000 net acre position. Natural gas fueling is one of many ways the Company expects reduce costs and increase efficiencies in the play as it transitions from lease capture mode to development mode.

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Nuclear Energy Is Dead  ...  But We've Been Saying That For Years

But Now It's The Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago

Blame Fracking

Forbes is reporting:

No utility executive could propose a nuclear reactor ”in good conscience” in the U.S. today, the director emeritus of Argonne National Laboratory said in Chicago Monday.

Alan Schriesheim became the first industry executive to lead a national laboratory when he took the helm of Argonne in 1983, after serving as Exxon’s head of engineering and the director of its research lab, which developed more efficient processes for producing components of gasoline.

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Whooping Cough Is Back With A Vengeance

In California

At Least It's Hard To Catch

ABC News is reporting:

California is again the the grips of a whooping cough outbreak, and this time it's even worse, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state is facing its worst outbreak in 70 years and has nearly 1,000 more cases than it did in 2010. As of Nov. 26, the state had 9,935 reported cases. 

Yes, Virginia, there is a vaccine for it. 

By the way, immunizations are no longer a medical issue; they are a social issue. Society decides if immunizations are needed and who requires immunizations and when.

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Global Warming

Being tweeted now, 5:03 p.m. CT:

• Update: 800 flights canceled in US today, 2,000 delayed, mainly due to Northeast storm and Dallas fog, according to FlightAware - @USATODAY 
• New daily maximum rainfall records set in New York City, 2.54 inches, and at John F Kennedy airport, 2.95 inches, LaGuardia airport, 2.65 inches, Long Island airport, 2.05 inches, and Stratford, Conn., airport, 2.07 inches - @NWSNewYorkNY