It might not be the prettiest of RVs going down the road, but the one driven across Texas by Joshua “Sunshine” Hill runs on free power. The sun. His truck is entirely-solar powered, one he designed and built himself according to KWTX TV. “I’m getting an experience out of this, but also when it’s …
Entergy Arkansas announced plans this week to purchase a 900-acre, 100-megawatt solar farm near Brinkley. Pending approval by the Arkansas Public Service Commission, Walnut Bend Solar will be among the largest solar generating facilities in the state. Walnut Bend will provide approximately 200 jobs during the construction phase, then 2-3 full-time employees once operational. …
Oklahoma Corporation Commission staffers say the COVID-19 pandemic is still hurting the state’s natural gas production and are recommending the commission continue with a 50% prorationing rate of natural gas production in the state beginning in October. Duncan Woodliff, Manager of Production and Proration for the Commission’s Oil and Gas Conservation Division issued his …
Even though Kinder Morgan announced a change in the route of its controversial Permian Highway pipeline in Texas, the line is still drawing opposition from nearby towns as well as landowners. The $2 billion Permian Highway Pipeline project would have a transportation capacity of about 2 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas …
Most unions run deep in support of Democrats but it was still something of a surprise this week when a pipeliners union came out and endorsed Joe Biden for President, even though he opposes the Keystone XL pipeline which is supported by the union. Biden won the endorsement of the United Association of Union Plumbers …
** Joe Biden earned a key endorsement Monday from a pipe-fitting and plumbing union — despite Biden’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline that the union wants to build. ** Worldwide turboprop utilization in July reached its highest levels so far in 2020, with 85,574 multi-engine flight hours and 61,510 single-engine flight hours, according to Aviation Week …
Kansas regulators have utilities in their state under orders to offer a plan so utility customers who can’t afford to pay their bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic don’t experience an immediate cutoff. Still, environmentalists are warning cutoffs in the heat could leads to deaths. Kansas falls alongside more than half of U.S. states …
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is hoping to land another $300 million in unemployment help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The money would be used to help those workers who lost their employment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to read more from the McCarville Report.
More Oklahomans are getting a taste of what oil and gas workers experienced in the past several months—the loss of their jobs. The latest are 142 employees of the Vetta Brands operation in Norman where the apparels plant is being shut down. In a WARN notice sent to the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development, …
A Houston pipeline company has plans to build a West Texas pipeline carrying wastewater from Lubbock to customers in Texas and New Mexico. Palisade Pipeline estimates industry freshwater demand in portions of the Permian Basin reached over 33.6 million gallons a day last year. The Houston-based company sees opportunity in that challenge — …
