The U.S. Supreme court ruling that overturned the state criminal prosecution of an Oklahoma defendant who committed a crime on Indian land has raised more questions than can be answered, especially when it comes to the state’s energy industry. There is a lot of head scratching going on and many more questions are raised, …
July 10, 2020 archive
Windfarm fraud case won’t be dropped in Arkansas
A federal judge in Fayetteville, Arkansas has refused to dismiss criminal charges against two men accused of scamming investors in a proposed wind-farm project in Elm Springs. The indictment claims that Davis and Ridings of Dragonfly scammed six investors in Northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri. Both are charged in U.S. District Court with multiple counts of wire …
Energy news in brief
** Both Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will unveil infrastructure plans this week. Biden’s plan is expected to focus on clean energy, while Trump will announce environmental permitting changes. ** A federal appeals court rules that drilling can resume in a sensitive Alaskan reserve without updating an environmental assessment that was completed four years before oil was discovered in …
Biden vows no fracking ban if he’s elected President
Before Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination, they vowed to ban fracking if they were elected. Now Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee says it won’t happen if he wins the White House. As POLITICO reported, Biden told a TV reporter in Pennsylvania that a …
Nation’s rig count falls more while Oklahoma remains steady
The number of oil and gas rigs in the U.S. declined by 5 in the past week, falling to 258 while the number in Oklahoma remained at 10 working rigs. Baker Hughes Co. in Houston reported the national rig count included a decline of four oil rigs leaving 181 active while the number of …