February 11, 2021 archive

PSO workers help parent company earn national honor

  The parent company of Public Service Company of Oklahoma and its employees were recently honored as recipients of the Edison Electric Institute’s Emergency Response Awards for Emergency Assistance given in 2020. The award went to American Electric Power but PSO helped with the honors as its workers in Oklahoma responded to more requests for …

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Some 400 American Airlines workers in Tulsa could be furloughed

  Some 400 workers at the American Airlines maintenance center in Tulsa could be among 13,000 company-wide to get furloughs in the coming days and weeks. The number of 400 was reported in Tulsa and also by the Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development. American Airlines based in Fort Worth, Texas announced earlier this month that …

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Excel Energy reaches new wind power milestone

  Wind power company Excel Energy announced it is one of the first U.S. energy providers to reach 10,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity, a milestone powered by the company’s 10 new wind projects in Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and the Upper Midwest. The projects were completed in the past few years and the company …

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Louisiana’s Democratic governor at odds with his own party over lease ban

  Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is taking his case against the Biden administration’s anti-oil and gas steps directly to some of its leaders. He’s at odds with the President’s move to put the fossil fuel industries in the bull’s eye and wants the White House to reconsider its ban on new oil and gas …

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New Mexico says Biden ban resulted in ‘confusion’

  The ban on new drilling and leasing on federal lands has left New Mexico state confused and they want a clarification from the Biden administration. New Mexico’s Secretary of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources sent a letter this week asking the Department of Interior to clarify how right-of-way permits fit into the new policy, …

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