An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 rattled central Kansas over the weekend and was strong enough to have been felt in Oklahoma and at least 19 other states. The U.S. Geological Survey reported it was felt as far east as South Carolina and Ohio, as far west as Utah and Arizona, north into Minnesota …
** The world’s oil and gas companies will undergo annual reviews by the International Energy Agency for how they’re doing on climate change and clean energy issues. The group released a report Sunday showing that oil and gas producers, including those owned by governments, spend on average just 1% of their total capital expenditure outside oil and gas. ** …
A former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner who is now involved in advocating solar power development contends Oklahoma could become the 6th most solar-powered state in the U.S. It’s what former commissioner Jim Roth told an Oklahoma House interim study last fall. “It is the most abundant form of energy in the state,” he said during the …
Days after the drilling assets of a Purcell, Oklahoma company that had won a more than $1 billion drilling contract in Venezuela were sold at auction, the U.S. government granted more time to Chevron Corp. to continue working in the country until mid-April. The Treasury Department granted permission over the weekend to allow Chevron, the …
When President Trump addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation Sunday night, he also announced his administration plans to withdraw an Obama-era water supply rule. The President said it would have given the federal government “vast and unlimited power to restrict farmers’ access to water.” As POLITICO’s Morning Energy Report explained, the Army Corps of Engineers …
Colorado Democrats have launched efforts in the legislature to go after oil and gas producers, proposing a bill to increase the maximum penalty for pollution. “We’re giving people who are experiencing harmful pollutants and the effects of these pollutants an opportunity to decide how they should be made whole,” Representative Dominique Jackson, a Democrat from …
A report by Rolling Stone magazine calls it “America’s radioactive secret,” the brine from oil and gas wells in Oklahoma, Texas and other energy-producing states. The report maintains that oil fields across the U.S. have been found to produce brine that is highly radioactive. In an investigation involving hundreds of interviews with scientists, environmentalists, regulators, …
Crude oil production from North Dakota’s Bakken slowed slightly in November while natural gas output was on the increase. Production could be slower as winter sets in for the Oklahoma producers such as Oklahoma’s Continental Resources Inc. and others who have seen huge success in the state. The Star-Tribune reported production from the country’s second-largest …
Residents of a southeast Nebraska county are still urging county leaders to adopt more restrictive requirements for wind farms. As the Hastings Tribune recently reported, Gage County Planning and Zoning officials have received more pressure from residents who want at least a mile setback of turbines from homes. Prairie Wind Watchers is the group …
County leaders north of St. Joseph, Missouri are being asked to ban wind farms in Buchanan County. The county zoning and planning committee spent two days last week listening to the arguments of residents who are fighting efforts of a Florida company to build the wind farm. Several concerns with the ordinance were addressed, …
