May 12, 2020 archive

Wind farm going up in Southeast Kansas and Southwest Missouri

Construction is underway on the wind farms being built by Liberty Utilities in Southeast Kansas and Southwest Missouri. The first of more than 270 wind turbines Liberty Utilities is building in Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas has been completed. It could provide electrical power for the region as early as next year according to the …

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Space Industry Authority to meet by zoom

  The Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority plans a meeting by Zoom on Wednesday. During the 1:30 p.m. meeting, board members will get updates on commercial spaceflight news as well as facility maintenance repairs. Staff members will also review the status of the agency’s Joint Use Agreement that allows Vance Air Force base to use …

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Earnings drop for Tulsa’s Cypress Environmental Partners

  Cypress Environmental Partners, L.P. reports a 24% drop in revenue in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a year ago. The Tulsa company said revenues were $68.5 this year compared to $90 million last year and it lost close to $1 million while a year ago, it reported net income of $1.4 million, a …

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Hamm urges producers to continue with cuts in oil production

While one oil group in Oklahoma wants the Corporation Commission to declare oil a waste and allow the shut-in of more wells, Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm is already shutting down most of his operations. In a conference call this week following the first quarter earnings report, Hamm told investors Continental is curtailing up to …

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Dueling letters in the fight over ethanol and refineries

    Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and four other governors have yet to hear from the White House about their request to grant waivers for small oil refineries from meeting EPA biofuel requirements. In return, some two dozen U.S. Senators also sent a letter to the President urging him not to comply with the governor’s …

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Feds overrule Washington state law restricting rail shipments of oil

  Washington state officials who created a new law targeting Bakken oil being moved by rail from North Dakota and Montana to the west coast have been overruled by the federal government. The Trump administration on Monday moved to block a Washington state law that imposed safety restrictions on oil shipments by rail following a …

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Judge stands by his ruling on Keystone XL pipeline

The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline suffered another setback in the long legal battle to build the system to transport oil from Canada into the U.S. and eventually to Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast. A federal judge in Montana on Monday upheld his ruling last month that canceled an environmental permit for the …

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