Never Saw This Coming -- A Crude Oil Refinery In Devils Lake? -- October 21, 2014

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Later, 9:48 p.m. CDT: Don caught this one. Note the estimated cost of the Devils Lake refinery proposal, $200 million. Same capacity refinery in Dickinson:

With an estimated 20 percent of work still to finish — “the hardest,” said project manager Jeff Rust — the $350 million refinery is on schedule to begin processing roughly 20,000 barrels of crude oil per day later this year.

So, the Devils Lake refinery, same capacity, is "only" $200 million vs $350 million for the Dickinson refinery?

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The Dickinson Press is reporting:

A $200 million, 20,000-barrel-a-day clean fuels oil refinery could be operating near Devils Lake within three years.

The refinery, similar to one being built in Dickinson, would employ about 100 people and could create as many as 400 spin-off jobs in the area, according to Rachel Lindstrom, executive director of Forward Devils Lake, the region’s economic development agency.

It's getting to the point that almost nothing surprises me any more when it comes to the Bakken.

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You Can't Get Ebola On The Bus -- President Obama

The AP is reporting:

After emerging months ago in eastern Sierra Leone, Ebola is now hitting the western edges of the country where the capital is located with dozens of people falling sick each day. So many people are dying that removing bodies is reportedly a problem.

Forty-nine confirmed cases of Ebola emerged in just one day, Monday, in two Ebola zones in and around the capital. More than 20 deaths are being reported daily.

Authorities say the uncontrolled movement of people from the interior to Waterloo which is the gateway to Freetown, the capital, has fueled the increase of Ebola cases in the west. There is a strong feeling that people are violating the quarantines elsewhere and coming to Freetown through Waterloo.

I know the folks aren't taking airplanes from rural Ebolaland to get to cities; and I know most of them aren't driving their own cars, and it's too far to walk, which pretty much leaves ... buses.