Modular Housing -- Interesting Concept -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Modular housing concept.

Federal Government's Scheme to Take Two Million Acres of Dakota Farmland

The Federal government is proposing to take 2 million acres of land in North Dakota and Montana off "the market" and turn it into a grassland conservatory. Two million acres is twice the size of Vermont. That's a lot of farmland to be taken off the market, plus everything else that would be eliminated. It is entirely voluntary, but the result will be a checkerboard mix of conservatory and non-conservatory land. That's the end of any linear power line transmission grids or pipelines in the future. This is not rocket science.

Most of this would not affect the Bakken directly.

Two Nice Wells Reported Today: an EOG Well and A Slawson Well -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

19047, 1,770, Slawson, Revolver 1-35H, Van Hook, Bakken
18203, 1,154, EOG, Fertile 34-31H, Parshall, Bakken

Something to Watch While Waiting for Bakken News

http://wimp.com/budgetcuts

This post will be removed later today, so if you want it, copy and paste the link.

Update: it turns out this is more popular than I expected, and I will keep this link, and give it a tag.

Why Is It So Hard to Find Some News? -- Not a Bakken Story

Don't worry, we will return to the Bakken shortly.

I was completely unaware of this. I watch the news pretty closely, and yet I almost missed this. It appears Congress has put to rest any possibility of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison holding terrorists or moving any terrorists to American soil for trial.

Congress on Wednesday signaled it won't close the prison at Guantanamo Bay or allow any of its suspected terrorist detainees to be transferred to the US,  dealing what is likely the final blow to President Obama's campaign pledge to shutter the facility in Cuba.

The move to block the prison's closure was written into a massive year-end spending bill that passed the House on Wednesday evening on a vote of 212-206, part of a last-minute legislative rush by Democrats to push through their priorities before ceding the House to Republican control in January.

I assume this story was reported in the NY Times, but I could not find it at Times on-line site. I assume it's there, and, no, I didn't google it.

The bad news: I can only imagine the amount of pork in this bill. Look at the narrow margin of victory.