Just because the U.S. Supreme court decided this week against hearing the 30-year old bribed Oklahoma Corporation Commission rate case doesn’t mean Oklahomans Against Bribery is giving up. The handful of consumers who took their case to the Corporation Commission and the State Supreme Court and lost, vow to continue what they called “their pursuit …
Aircraft maker Spirit Aero, the company with large manufacturing operations in McAlester and Tulsa, Oklahoma has unveiled plans for $1 billion in expansion, including a new 7-story headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. The $23 million headquarters will not only be high-tech and 7 stories tall but also capable of housing 2.3 million aircraft parts. Spirit says …
Oklahoma’s Osage Nation is awaiting a recommendation from the solicitor general as to whether the U.S. Supreme court will consider the tribe’s legal fight with the Osage Wind company. But it might be months before it learns if the case will be heard by the high court. The issue was not among those accepted or …
A number of projects ranging from the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System to private developments around Army Corps of Engineers Lakes are part of the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 passed this week by the U.S Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is the ranking Republican on the committee and …
Due to improving wildland fire conditions, Governor Mary Fallin has issued a proclamation reducing the number of counties in the governor’s burn ban from 14 to seven. The change came at the recommendation of Oklahoma Forestry Services (OFS) after an analysis of the impact of recent rains. Counties that remain under the governor’s burn ban …
In an unusual move, the State Supreme Court recently not only overturned decisions of an administrative law judge but of the Oklahoma workers’ Compensation Commission and the State Court of Civil Appeals in a case involving an injured pipeline worker. The court overturned the three previous rulings in the case of Octavio Pina who was …
With wind farm operations in Oklahoma, NextEra Energy is expanding its energy-production with a $6.475 billion purchase of a utility and other Florida assets from Southern Co. At least $5.1 billion is cash in a deal that allows the most valuable power company in the country to grow even more. NextEra is buying Gulf Power, …
Oklahoma City’s “New-Old” style of transportation—streetcars—is about six months away from being put into service. Testing of the system started this week on a 2.3 mile loop connecting Bricktown with Chesapeake Energy Arena as well as a new convention center complex and the Myriad Gardens. City crews and others working on the $132 million system …
One of the lawsuits filed against Tulsa’s New Dominion LLC blaming the company’s disposal well operations for causing the 2011 earthquakes near Prague has been classified a class-action case. Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley made the ruling, determining that homeowners and business operators in nine counties can join the lawsuit which is now set …
Of the nearly $50 million donated by ExxonMobil and its employees to 840 colleges and universities last year, more than $1 million went to higher education in Oklahoma. The Texas-based energy company and its employees donated $49.8 million as part of the ExxonMobil Foundation’s 2017 Educational Matching Gift Program. Employees, retirees and directors contributed $16.9 …
