No New Permits (?) In North Dakota -- August 14, 2015

Updates

August 15, 2015 (Saturday): isn't this interesting? Yesterday's NDIC daily activity report clearly stated there were no new permits issued.  However, a sharp-eyed, and no doubt, a very curious reader took a look and noted that, in fact, thirteen (13) new permits have been added to the list since Thursday, so either they were added Friday, or they were added early this morning (on a Saturday):

• Operators: CLR (8), XTO (4), QEP
• Fields: Sanish (Mountrail), Lindahl, McGregor, Grail
• Comments: CLR's eight (8) permits are all Corsican Federal permits in the Sanish 

For more on these new permits, see this post.

Original Post

 

This is a first for North Dakota since the boom began in 2007. I'm sure it's happened before but I'm not going to look for an example.

There were no new permits for oil and gas wells issued today.

There were no producing wells completed.

Other than the previously announced wells that came off the confidential list, there was nothing additional except a couple of permit renewals, and a couple of well name changes.

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Holy, Huron, Batman!

Great Lakes Rising!

Link here.

Maybe this is why Al Gore is considering a presidential run, according to the climate change theorists the water levels of the great lakes are supposed to be going down, but they are going up much to the chagrin of the global warming freaks.

"Faster than ever before.” That’s how one headline from the Weather Channel described current changes in Great Lakes water levels (see video below). But the article itself acknowledged that Lakes Huron and Michigan, which come together in the Straits of Mackinac and so are considered one lake by hydrologists, actually rose faster 65 years ago. So why did the headline writer call the current rise “faster than ever before?"

Those who believe in the climate change hypothesis have been blaming below-average Great Lakes water levels on warming. "Although the period from 1999 to 2013 set fewer records than previous low-water spells, it was repeatedly portrayed by environmentalists and their media allies as clear evidence of climate change."

But in the second half of 2013 their claims started to get all wet as the water began to rise but as they usually do instead of recognizing the truth--that their claims were nonsense, the climate change freaks now said the increase was evidence of an “extreme weather phenomenon” caused (of course) by global warming.

The warmists can explain anything on global warming.

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Los Angeles Times Can't Comprehend The Dollars Involved
Our Next President?

My hunch is that the Los Angeles Times did not catch this error. This was probably caught be a reader. According to wiki: The overall median income for all 155 million persons over the age of 15 who worked with earnings in 2005 was $28,567. This source suggests the mean (average) American income is slightly below $70,000. Times 5 = $350,000. Business Insider reports that Hillary Clinton, after leaving the State Departmetnt:

During that time, she made nearly $12 million by charging fees that topped $335,000 for dozens of speeches.

$12 million in speeches / $70,0000 = 170 times the average annual American income ($70,000). And that's just speaking fees.