August 25, 2021 archive

Kansas and Texas workers to be part of building first off-shore wind substation

  The impact of the first American-built offshore wind substation to serve New York’s Long Island stretches from Kansas to Texas. In partnering for the South Fork Wind project, Orsted and Eversource announced work has started on the project. The two firms chose Omaha, Nebraska-based Kiewit Offshore Services, the largest offshore fabricator in the nation …

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EIA expects increased U.S. propane consumption this winter, especially in the Midwest

  The government’s predicting increased use of propane consumption this winter, expecting an increase of 3.4% and largely because of the growing use of propane as a petrochemical feedstock. It’s a prediction that likely will affect Oklahomans this coming winter. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), it anticipates the greater …

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Energy news in brief

** The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by opponents of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline, letting stand a key decision by independent regulators to allow construction on the project to proceed. ** North Dakota’s attorney general files a motion seeking to resume oil and gas leasing on public lands. **  U.S. Energy Storage Association …

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Tribes demand input in government’s oil and gas leasing review

  Native American leaders in northwest New Mexico say the U.S. Interior Department should include them in the agency’s review of its mineral leasing program. Pueblo leaders and archaeologists are seeking help in protecting the Chaco Canyon in the state. They also say the government should consult tribes as the Interior Department moves ahead with …

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Biden administration takes a knee in oil and gas lease fight

A federal judge’s ruling in the lawsuit filed by Oklahoma and a dozen other states that President Biden’s pause of leasing oil and gas drilling rights in the U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico prompted the Interior Department to move to resume the sale of the rights. Oklahoma and the other states filed the lawsuit …

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