March 8, 2016 archive

Crude Oil Slips After Reaching High for the Year

Oil prices settled lower Tuesday, a day after hitting their highest settlements of the year.
April West Texas Intermediate ended trading at $36.50 a barrel, down $1.40, or 3.7%, on the New York Mercantile Exchange after tapping highs above $38 earlier…

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Completion Reports March 9, 2016

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Facebook Censors Stories About How Badly a Fracking Lawsuit was Going

For telling the truth about how badly a fracking-lawsuit is going in Pennsylvania, a FrackNation writer’s stories were suspended over the weekend by Facebook.
Facebook offered no explanation according to a report by Breitbart.
The Dimock Water story…

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Wastewater Spill Occurs Near Medford

A cleanup continues into a spill of several thousand barrels of wastewater injection fluid into Polecat Creek in Grant County near Medford. The spill by Special Energy Corporation of Stillwater involved about 18,000 barrels according to Matt Skinner, s…

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Attorney General Remains Confident of Lawsuit Against WOTUS

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt remains confident and optimistic about Oklahoma’s lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the U.S. rule. Oklahoma is one of more than 30 states that filed suit last year and the …

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Attorney General Remains Confident of Lawsuit Against WOTUS

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt remains confident and optimistic about Oklahoma’s lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the U.S. rule. Oklahoma is one of more than 30 states that filed suit last year and the case i…

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Sen. Inhofe Challenges Acting Deputy Administrator of EPA

U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe is using his position as chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to question the legal authority for Albert Stanley Meiburg to be serving as acting deputy administrator of the Environmental Prote…

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Sen. Inhofe Challenges Acting Deputy Administrator of EPA

U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe is using his position as chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to question the legal authority for Albert Stanley Meiburg to be serving as acting deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection …

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Meeting Cancelled by DEQ and State Air Group

Cancelled—-Wednesday’s meeting of the State Department of Environmental Quality with the Oklahoma chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association.
Tim Seidel, manager of the Phillips 66 oil refinery in Ponca City had been scheduled to make a pr…

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Rep. Russell Says White House Might Support his Natural Gas Plan with China

Oklahoma Congressman Steve Russell (R) has hit upon an idea that he says President Obama’s trade team appears to support—-one of exporting U.S. natural gas to China in exchange for Chinese bond debt.
“What they don’t have is an abundance of natural …

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