Four Of Five Wells Going To DRL Status -- North Dakota Bakken, November 18, 2014

IPs for wells coming off confidential list have been posted; 4/5 of wells go to DRL status.

Active rigs:

	11/18/2014	11/18/2013	11/18/2012	11/18/2011	11/18/2010
Active Rigs	184	183	187	203	160

RBN Energy: the diluent trail across Canada, part 5.

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Wind farm sues to block release of dead eagle count:

Using documents, emails and interviews with former wildlife officials, the AP in articles published last year documented more than four dozen eagle deaths in Wyoming since 2009, and dozens more in California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Nevada. Corporate surveys submitted to the federal government and obtained by AP showed at least 20 eagles found dead in recent years on Pacificorp wind farms in Wyoming.

Folks are worried about the sage grouse which is getting about as much protection as it possibly could, and President Obama gave blanket immunity to wind farm corporations found to be killing eagles and whooping cranes.

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BNSF outbound traffic up 200, inbound up nearly 120 percent :

BNSF’s rail traffic in North Dakota is at an historic high, with outbound train volume up by nearly 200 percent since 2009 and inbound up nearly 120 percent.

The remarkable train volume — a train every 45 minutes through New Salem, on average — carries everything from grain commodities to construction materials to crude oil in North Dakota’s multifaceted boom economy.

Memo to self: send another thank you letter the folks in Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa.  Folks in New Salem need to send a letter to POTUS (see next item).

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Reuters On POTUS and The Keystone

Reuters via Rigzone has a long article on why President Obama is "at least" half-wrong on the Keystone. There is way too much to provide even a paragraph; the article needs to be read in whole by those who don't understand the argument. I assume regular readers do.

Having said that, the writer fails to provide the history back to 1995 regarding the reasons for the
industry's need for the Keystone pipeline. The writer leaves out a lot but "at least" it's a start.

And again, Reuters would not have posted this article prior to the mid-term elections. Everyone is living in a post-Obama world; folks are saying things now that they haven't said in years, as they start to move POTUS off center stage of this three-ring circus.

For another example, it appears that Starbucks-drinking, Obama-apologist, Joe Scarborough is even starting to turn.