** Phillips 66 will host its 2020 annual meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, May 6, at 9 a.m. CDT in a virtual-only format via live webcast. The meeting can be accessed at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/PSX2020 or the Phillips 66 Investors site at www.phillips66.com/investors under “Events and Presentations”.
** HollyFrontier Corporation announced that due to the emerging public health impact of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) the company will change the format of its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 13 at 8:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time from in-person to a virtual meeting format only, via webcast.
** Cheniere Energy, Inc. plans to issue its earnings release with respect to first quarter 2020 financial results on Thursday, April 30, 2020 before the market opens. Cheniere will host a conference call for investors and analysts at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. Central Time) to discuss first quarter results.
** ALLETE Inc., developer of a large windfarm near Ardmore, Oklahoma will announce its financial results for the first quarter before the stock markets open on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.
** A Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in South Dakota will temporarily close for cleaning after more than 80 employees were confirmed to have the coronavirus, the company announced. Smithfield Foods plans to suspend operations in a large section of the Sioux Falls plant.
** Missouri’s consumer advocate asks regulators to suspend utility energy efficiency programs as a way to reduce customer bills during the coronavirus pandemic, but supporters of the programs say it’s an excuse to weaken the state’s efficiency law.
** Enbridge submits permit applications to state and federal regulators to build a tunnel for the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac as critics ask officials to delay the process due to the coronavirus.
** The municipal utility in Springfield, Illinois, is not saying what led to a breakdown at its coal plant that cost the city $1 million and forced it to buy power on the market.
** A local official in metro Cleveland submits a letter co-signed by more than a dozen local leaders in support of a planned offshore wind project in Lake Erie.
** An undisclosed number of COVID-19 cases have been documented at a Michigan nuclear plant during its latest refueling outage.
** Tesla is reportedly set to furlough non-critical employees without pay and cut executive salaries as much as 30% through Q2 while its operations remain suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.
** ConocoPhillips is demobilizing its operations on Alaska’s North Slope in a bid to reduce the number of workers at risk of contracting the coronavirus.
** Officials in a Wyoming county are concerned about the influx of contract workers, mostly from out of state, for major wind energy projects amid the coronavirus pandemic.
** A lawsuit brought by former Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray halts a public meeting scheduled on proposed saltwater injection wells in eastern Ohio.