Considered the largest, privately-owned freight carrier in North America, Estes Express acquired a a former trucking terminal in Oklahoma City in a nearly $15 million deal. The Virginia-based trucking line with 260 terminals across the country bought the Waggoners Trucking terminal at 1501 SE 15 in Oklahoma City. Estes is expanding nationwide and anticipates …
Icy and bitterly cold weather early Monday resulted in crashes throughout Oklahoma City and forced the cancellation of events and postponement of others. Included in the list of groups forced to delay their meetings was the Oklahoma Transportation Commission. It was scheduled to meet Monday morning but leaders quickly postponed the monthly meeting …
Questions are being raised about the developer of an underground nuclear waste storage facility in the southern part of New Mexico. Some members of the state’s congressional delegation have joined environmentalists and other opponents in contending the operation was rushed through the approval process during the pandemic reported Searchlight New Mexico. Click here for …
Regulators in Kansas are still reviewing and conducting a close study of Evergy’s proposed clean energy plan which includes $5.6 billion in upgrades of its transmission and distribution. The Topeka Capital Journal reports the Kansas Corporation Commission has gone into a deep study of the impact of the company’s Sustainability Transformation Plan.” Every, the …
Nearly two months after it announced the sale of its NorthPark Basin assets in Colorado, SandRidge Energy said the deal was finalized this week. The company divested its holdings in a $47 million cash deal that was effective Oct. 1, 2020. The buyer was not disclosed at the time of the original announcement and …
An OGE customer in Arkansas has just finished the first part of a project to get its electricity from the power of the sun rather than the Oklahoma-based utility. City leaders in Alma held a “Flip the Switch” event on Friday for a new solar array to power the city’s wastewater treatment facility and …
Environmental groups and Democrats in the Texas legislature are pushing a bill to create a tax on gas that is vented or flared during production. The bill by Austin Democratic Rep. Vikki Goodwin would put a 25% levy on the produced gas. “—for oil producers, they see it as a waste product. Rather than …
