Approved in North Dakota, a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar wind farm. The North Dakota Public Service Commission voted this week unanimously in support of the $250 million wind farm and an electric transmission line in the southwest part of the state. The decision came after the commission made history in March when it heard 15 hours of testimony …
A judge’s recent ruling in Texas is keeping alive a man’s lawsuit against TransCanada’s southern route of the Keystone XL pipeline, the one completed two years ago carrying oil from Cushing south to the Gulf Coast refineries. Texas landowner Michael Bishop filed suit, accusing TransCanada for “fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, misrepresentation, perjury, theft, bribery, …
TransCanada Keystone Pipeline LP is still fighting the Obama administration in the President’s rejection of the Keystone Xl pipeline. It recently urged a Texas federal judge to nullify the administration’s denial of the cross-border permit for the pipeline. In a filing in Houston, TransCanada argued the President’s action and claim of constitutional authority lacks historical support. …
Figures released this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed U.S. ethanol exports for May fell to a 9-month low. They totaled 55.7 million gallons, a drop of 42% or 40 million gallons from April. The Renewable Fuels Association indicated that Canada replaced China as the top destination. Nearly 21.5 million gallons were shipped …
The news this week from Oklahoma State Treasurer Ken Miller did not give much indication the state’s economy was improving. If anything, it’s just bumping along with only a slight improvement in gross production tax collections on oil and gas. Otherwise, the state remains in the recession it entered a year ago. “Receipts from all …
Oil futures traded higher on Wednesday afternoon as worries eased following analysts’ predictions supported by a record travel holiday weekend, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, August West Texas Intermediate crude oil added 83 cents, or 1.8%, to settle at $47.43 a barrel. Earlier, prices reached a low of $45.92 a …
Ever since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May, leaders of Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy have been busy with one filing after another in the southern District of Bankruptcy court in Texas. It’s clear the bankruptcy is not going as smoothly as some on either side would prefer. Recently, the company’s official committee of unsecured …
A city committee in Norman has voted in favor of approving construction of a the Red River Pipeline by Plains All American, despite objections of city residents. The pipeline company is the same one that was indicted by the state of California in May for last year’s oil spill near Santa Barbara, California. The Floodplain Permit …
Updating the legal fight that 24 states have with the Environmental Protection Agency over the agency’s carbon emissions reduction plan on new power plants, the states are asking the D.C. Circuit to review EPA’s rejection of their plea. It was last fall when the states filed lawsuits challenging the President’s environmental agenda and his signature climate …
A lawsuit’s been filed in Georgia by a company that claims it was mislead by Mississippi Power Company into building a $100 million pipeline. The Associated Press says Treetop Midstream Services, an affiliate of an oil company that planned to pump carbon dioxide underground to force out oil sued Atlanta-based Southern Co. and its Mississippi …
