May 2018 archive

Voter Registration Deadline is Approaching

Registration deadline for the upcoming Oklahoma June 26 State Election Primary is Friday. If you want to vote, you have to be registered by the end of the week. Friday, June 1 is the deadline to register to vote or change addresses before next month’s election. Voter registration forms can be downloaded from the Oklahoma …

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Storms Leave Trail of Damage in Oklahoma and Kansas

(Eastman Hotel before it was damaged) An oil tank battery was a victim of the Tuesday night severe weather that produced tornadoes and baseball sized hail in western and northern Oklahoma. The tank battery was set afire apparently from a lightning strike near the northwestern town of Freedom but no injuries were reported. A tornado …

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TransCanada hopes political contributions ends up with Keystone XL pipeline approval

Digging into campaign contribution records in Nebraska, reporters have found how the Keystone XL pipeline developer has kicked in more than $65,000 to political campaigns…all in an effort apparently to win final state approval of the controversial project. The money came from a political action committee for TransCanada Inc. and went mostly to Republican state …

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Pickens Knows he has to sell his Texas Ranch but the $250 million asking price draws little interest

No takers so far, but oilman T. Boone Pickens still has his 65,000 Texas Panhandle ranch and estate up for sale. After turning 90 this month and suffering several strokes, the noted energy leader is pushing ahead with the sale of Mesa Vista Ranch, a 65,000 acre spread near Pampa that he developed over the …

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Gasoline Prices Hold Steady in Oklahoma at $2.69 a gallon

Despite a post-Memorial Day average price of $2.69 per gallon, Oklahoma still has some of the cheapest gasoline in the country. It’s in the ten states with the lowest averages. Oklahoma’s average price this week was actually a penny lower than a week ago. The average of $2.69 is the same for the state of …

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Kinder Morgan Cuts $4.5 Billion Deal to Sell Canadian System

Houston’s Kinder Morgan, Inc., a company with thousands of miles of pipeline system and 10 natural gas gathering systems in Oklahoma announced the $4.5 billion sale of the Trans Mountain Pipeline System to Canada. The company said the agreement not only includes the purchase of the system but an expansion project by the government of …

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Cypress Energy Cuts Debt Through New Financial Deal

Tulsa’s Cypress Energy Partners, L.P. says it’s closed a more than $43 million placement of convertible preferred units to an affiliate and used the proceeds to pay down debt. The company said the $43.5 million placement allows it to extend the maturity of its credit facility three years from the closing date of the renewal. …

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Former HollyFrontier Leader’s Death Reported in Dallas

  The former chief executive officer of HollyFrontier Corporation in Dallas has died and is being remembered by the company which he ran for nearly 30 years. Lamar Norsworthy was a director from 1967 to 2007 and served as CEO from 1971 to 2005. He was President from 1971 to 1977 and Chairman of the …

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Wind Coalition Leader Subpoenaed by Oklahoma Multicounty Grand Jury

When Oklahoma’s multicounty grand jury meets in June, the question will be whether Wind Coalition director Jeff Clark of Austin, Texas will be there to testify. Reports indicate he has been subpoenaed to testify as the grand jury probes the allegations of Moore Rep. Mark McBride who claims the wind industry hired private detectives to …

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Schwarzenegger Calls Scott Pruitt ‘Worst” EPA Administrator in History

One probably wouldn’t blame EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, for never paying to see a movie by Arnold Schwarzenegger especially after hearing what the star of the “Terminator” movies had to say about him  recently. At the most-recent  R20 Austrian World Summit he hosts every year in his native country, the former Governor of California and …

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