Two Kansas men face lengthy prison terms for defrauding the Defense Department out of nearly $13 million in government contracts. Federal prosecutors in Kansas City contend Troy L. Bechtel, 49 of Overland Park, Kansas was the main violator. He’s charged with two counts of major program fraud and two counts of lying to federal investigators. …
Five bills introduced in the Oklahoma legislature by four state Senators are targeting the wind industry. The bills created additional requirements for airport setbacks, fees for conversion to direct current electricity from wind farms and decreasing the time for the decommissioning of a wind farm. Broken Arrow Sen. Nathan Dahm’s Senate Bill 964 would require …
ConocoPhillips plans to release its fourth quarter and full-year 2018 financial and operating results next week. The Jan. 31 release will be made before the market opens on that Thursday. Company management will hold a conference call webcast at 11 a.m. central time. The company’s third-quarter 2018 earnings reported in October 2018 totaled $1.9 billion …
The Denver federal appeals court has ruled against the Bureau of Land Management in a 2013 dispute it had in attempting to inspect four wells on privately owned land in southwestern Colorado. The court called it a “key or lock” case. The suit was filed by Alexis and Mary O’Hare who owned 240 acres of …
A man who was considered to be one of the founders of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency died last week in Virginia. Douglas Costle was the EPA administrator during the Carter administration. Previously, he was a senior staffer for President Nixon’s advisory council on reorganizing the executive branch and led the study that recommended founding …
Completion reports for January 21, 2019. None were processed because of the Martin Luther King federal holiday.
Gasoline prices went up nearly 6 cents a gallon in Oklahoma City in the past week, reaching an average of $1.89 a gallon while statewide prices rose only one cent hitting an average of $1.93 per gallon. AAA Oklahoma reports the $1.93 average this week in the state compares to $1.92 a gallon one week …
A district court jury in central Iowa has given a victory to a landowner who contended oil pipeline builder Dakota Access didn’t pay her enough for her farmland. The Boone County jury recently ruled in favor of Judith Lamb and awarded her $250,000, farm more than the $90,100 a county compensation board gave her when …
Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin will have some direct input when it comes to the efforts of Democrats in the House to approve climate change legislation. He’s been named by Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to sit on the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. His appointment was one of only a …
