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2017 archive
City of Lawton Pushes Ahead with Energy Saving Plan
The City of Lawton is moving ahead with an energy savings plan dating back to the fall of 2015. As the Lawton Constitution reports, the city council considered the Op Terra ES plan to analyze city operations to find additional energy savings. The plan will focus on technology, lighting, control and mechanical projects. Outdated chillers …
Cleanup of Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Site Still Underway
The environmentalists who protested and demonstrated against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota left enough trash behind that they created their own environmental problem. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had to hired a Florida-based company to remove the trash and other debris left behind when the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe finally abandoned the …
Inhofe Loses Another Aide to Trump Administration
Make it three aides to U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe who have now joined the Trump administration in energy and environmental positions. It was announced this week that Inhofe’s longtime aide Ryan Jackson had joined Scott Pruitt at the EPA to become his top staffer. Jackson left Inhofe’s office to become chief of staff at the …
Merger Creates Largest Pipeline Operator in North America
Tulsa’s Williams Companies has some competition when it comes to being the largest pipeline operator in the country. With the $28 billion acquisition by Calgary-based Enbridge of Houston’s Spectra Energy, the result is North America’s largest network of oil and gas pipelines. The merger announced on Monday combines Enbridge’s oil pipeline, rail and electric transmission …
Scientists Worry About Pruitt at the Helm of the EPA
One of the concerned groups wondering about the impact of an EPA under the control of former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is the Union of Concerned Scientists. Its President, Kenneth Kimmell recently told E and E’s ClimateWire he has a deep concern Pruitt’s role as EPA Administrator means the end of a strong federal …
Southwestern Cable Firm gets $15 million USDA Loan
Southwestern Oklahoma will get improved fiber optics under a loan announced this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Southern Plains Cable LLC. The company is receiving a $15.3 million loan to build a fiber-optic broadband network serving a 55-square mile area that includes the communities of Anadarko, Verden and Chickasha. Southern Plains Cable …
WPX Energy Fined $1.2 Million for Pennsylvania Groundwater Contamination in 2012
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection levied a $1.2 million fine against Tulsa-based WPX Energy for contaminating the groundwater supply of five households in 2012, according to a report by NewsOK.com. WPX Energy agreed to pay the million dollar fine following an agreed consent order issued last December. The leak occurred at a wastewater pit …
Magellan Midstream Agrees to Reimbursement for Iowa Diesel Fuel Spill
Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream Partners has agreed to reimburse all local and state agencies for expenses incurred while responding to a pipeline leak last month near Hanlontown in north-central Iowa, according to a report by The Des Moines Register. OK Energy Today reported on January 26 and January 31 of this year about the spill in …
Crude Oil Futures Remain Flat on Monday as Signs Point to Increase in Domestic Production
Domestic oil futures notched a slight gain on Monday as an uptick in U.S. production appears imminent based on a rise in last week’s active rig count, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, April WTI crude tacked on 6 cents, or 0.1%, to settle at $54.05 a barrel. On London’s ICE Futures …