When President Trump recently announced a move to free up more water availability for California farmers, Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin and his son were there for the event. And Mullin’s son was honored too. “As many of you know, my son Jim is recovering from a wrestling injury and undergoing treatment in Bakersfield, California. On …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that the boil order for the Beaver Co. RWD #1 (Turpin), located in Beaver County, has been lifted. The water is now safe for human consumption. The order to boil water was issued due to the presence of E. coli. State and federal regulations require that customers …
After listening to opponents of a proposed wind farm in northeast Nebraska, one county is considering restrictions on the wind project including half-mile setbacks. It’s in Burt County where planning commissioners recently heard opposition to the possible construction of 86 turbines by Con Edison. Some of the turbines would be as tall as 650 …
When a County Planning and Zoning Commission in St. Joseph, Missouri recently voted in support of a proposed total commercial ban on wind energy, the crowd in attendance stood and applauded. Now Buchanan County Commissioners will consider the proposal and Presiding Commissioner Lee Sawyer said that the commissioners have three options: to pass the …
A massive wind farm project in Oklahoma could be critical to American Electric Power’s expectations of 5% to 7% earnings growth through 2024. The North Central Wind project, a proposed operation of three wind farms capable of producing 1,485 MW of electrical power for Public Service Company of Oklahoma is still in regulatory limbo. …
Environmentalists have gone to court to stop the Trump administration to allow 3,500 new gas wells in southwestern Wyoming, contending the wells will interrupt an historic migration route for the Pronghorn antelope. The area in question is also where antelope have historically traversed a 170-mile migration route every year for 6,000 years. Conservation groups filed …
