March 5, 2021 archive

Pipeline protester jailed again for refusing to testify

  Four years after Steve Martinez took part in the violent protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, he has been jailed a second time for refusing to testify before a North Dakota federal grand jury probing the incidents.  In addition to more jail time, Martinez was also hit with a daily fine according to the …

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Unclear if Interior nominee will be opposed by Sen. Inhofe

  New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland won the support of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in her bid by the Biden administration to become the new Interior Secretary. It is still not known how one of Oklahoma’s two U.S. Senators will vote when it goes to the full senate. The vote was …

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Enel Green adds to its wind projects

  Enel Green Power, already the largest wind farm operator in Oklahoma has begun construction on its latest wind project not far from the Oklahoma state line in Texas. The 79-wind turbines that will make up the Azure Sky wind and storage farm will be located in Throckmorton County located southwest of Wichita Falls. It …

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Supreme Court rules against Sierra Club

  The Sierra Club’s Freedom of Information legal loss this past week by the U.S. Supreme Court also happened to be the first time that new Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the ruling. The Club had been in a legal battle to obtain documents which detailed how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2014 …

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Frozen wind turbines studied at Iowa State University

  Preventing wind turbines from freezing in frigid weather like the winter storm that hit Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas last month isn’t as easy as it sounds. It’s not a simple solution of putting electrical heaters on the blades. One Iowa State University scientist who has been studying ways to prevent the icing on wind …

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