City Of Richardton -- Moving Closer To Fracking Sand Transloading Facility - September 12, 2014

Updates

October 21, 2014: a reader notes that they are starting to move earth west of Richardton for this new transloading terminal. 
 

Original Post

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

The City of Richardton’s Planning Commission recommended approval of a Halliburton frack sand plant after tabling it at its last meeting over landowner concerns.

The Richardton City Commission must still approve the project at its Sept. 22 meeting.

Halliburton has requested the rezoning of 300 acres on I-94 to the west of Richardton for a transloading facility and a frack sand plant. The company hopes to be running trucks by June.

Richardton is about 25 miles directly east of Dickinson. 

My first thoughts:

• 2007 - 2010: the years of delineating the Bakken
• 2010 - 2011: the years of new pipeline
• 2011 - 2014: the years of CBR
• 2014 - 2015: the year of fracking sand 
• 2015 - 2016: the year of "big" retail

Or something like that; the data points may need to be refined.

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That Was Easy

The initiative/referendum to break up California into six (6) -- count 'em -- six states failed to get enough signatures to get on the November, 2014, ballot. The "adventure" was called "quixotic."

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Government Motors Pulls Chevrolet Corvette, Temporarily

Yahoo!Finance is reporting:

Auto dealers were told to stop selling the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette and shipments were delayed from the General Motors plant that makes the hot-selling sports car while the company addresses two issues, GM said Friday.

Not related to ignition switches; just the brakes and the air brakes. Nothing serious. LOL. 

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Global Warming

Climate Change

Extreme Weather

Ice Age

The NOAA is reporting that 246 "low maximum records were broken or tied" the first ten (10) days of September:

246 Low Max Records Broken or  Tied From Sept 1 to Sept 10 according to the NOAA.

A “Low Max” means that the maximum temperatures for the day was the lowest it has ever been. This indicates daytime cooling.

Below is a screenshot showing location and the biggest difference between old record and new record.

I wonder how much atmospheric CO2 will rise once Iraq War III begins (all those fighters and bombers; all those tanks; all those fuel trucks; all those Toyota pick-up trucks). One reader thinks that, in fact, atmospheric CO2 will start to rise now that autumn is here, leaves start falling, and vegetation hunkers down for a long cold winter. What we need to do is ban winter. Actually, rising CO2 should make vegetation more lush, taking in more CO2, and actually resulting in a new homeostasis.

What impresses me most is how God, Allah, Algore, and/or nature set parameters that are so easy to remember:

• 400 ppm -- the amount of atmospheric COS that will bring the world to an end as know it
• 2 C -- the global warming threshold that will bring the world to an end as we know it
• 2100 -- the year the world comes to an end as know it

Homer could not have done it better.

Now we have 52 explanations for the global warming pause, but still just one explanation for global warming 18 years ago: 400 ppm. It's complicated. Never mind that we've passed the 400 ppm threshold and things have actually started to cool down.