** The Nagashiki Shipping Co.-owned vessel that ran aground last month and spilled oil off the Mauritian coast has broken up. “The bigger part which was lying outside the lagoon is being towed toward the high seas,” the Shipping Ministry spokesman, Jasvin Sok Appadu, said by phone. ** China plans to ship large volumes of U.S. crude …
August 17, 2020 archive
New Mexico Governor named Wind Energy Champion
The American Wind Energy Association presented its 2020 Wind Champion Award to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in an online forum that highlighted New Mexico’s progress in building wind-generation across the state. The award and forum, which included the governor and executives from several wind development companies, were part of the national association’s “American Wind …
Energy closings to increase poverty in Gallup, New Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic had already hit Gallup, New Mexico hard but now economic conditions are getting worse as the city’s oil and gas refinery is closing and a nearby coal-fired generating plan will shut down at year’s end. The Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery shutdown will put 200 employees out of work. Another 226 will …
Federal legislation unlikely this year over US Supreme Court ruling
Prospects have dimmed for federal legislation this year to clarify Oklahoma’s criminal and civil jurisdiction in the wake of a momentous U.S. Supreme Court decision that could soon mean nearly half the state is Indian reservation land. The Tulsa World reported U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., the senior member of the state’s congressional delegation, …
OKC’s Chaparral Energy files Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Weeks after indicating it would miss loan repayments, Oklahoma City’s Chaparral Energy, Inc. announced Monday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing was made Sunday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware as part of a restructuring agreement the company made with some of its debtholders. ““While we have taken …
Rep. Hern promotes Oklahoma’s aeronautical industry
In his first week back in Oklahoma during a congressional recess, Rep. Kevin Hern visited some of the industries in his first congressional district. “I’m always happy to be home. Congress should be in session right now, working on further COVID-19 relief for the American people, but I can’t control that. What I can …
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