{"id":39471,"date":"2025-03-14T04:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39471"},"modified":"2025-03-14T04:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:51:51","slug":"this-dune-isnt-fiction-its-the-longest-conveyer-belt-in-the-us-and-moving-sand-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39471","title":{"rendered":"This &#8216;Dune&#8217; isn&#8217;t fiction. It&#8217;s the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/08d57b2\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6644x4429+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F57%2F54%2F452eee56c0b855e00a5f55942d1b%2F5d05a7f3d6b84e409d153b7cf65170c8\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"195\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/conveyor-dune-oil-sand-texas-hydraulic-fracturing-1e98b8438de8dfa687118599ec2ff7f4\">This &#8216;Dune&#8217; isn&#8217;t fiction. It&#8217;s the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: 42 fucking miles of conveyor to move sand to fracking sites in west texas.  $US400M <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2105,2044,513],"class_list":["post-39471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fracking","tag-sand","tag-texas","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39473,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471\/revisions\/39473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}