The Gooney Bird, the Unsung Hero of WWII is coming to this week’s Bradley Breakfast in Oklahoma City, a gathering of local leaders of business, private organizations, county, state and federal government officials who want to be involved in issues of importance to Oklahoma. The Tuesday morning event will feature the newly produced documentary …
More states are lining up to follow Texas and Oklahoma laws that stop financial companies from boycotting fossil fuel companies by withholding financial assistance. The original bill was passed last year in Texas and is being enforced this year reported Gizmodo. Click here for Gizmodo
As shares of Tulsa’s Laredo Petroleum soared from $36 to nearly $109 over the past year, company President and CEO Jason M. Pigott unloaded nearly 7,000 shares in the company. A filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed Pigott sold 6,932 shares when prices hit more than $107. It resulted …
Clean energy advocates in Kansas City are applauding Ford Motor Company’s investment in electric vehicle production in Missouri. Last week, Ford announced it would invest $95 million in its Kansas City plant toward electric commercial van production, a move that would add about 1,200 jobs according to KRCG 13 news. Click here for KRCG …
As one of our readers at OK Energy Today showed us, you don’t have to drive to southwest Oklahoma to find $5 gas. Phil Chivers forwarded the picture of fuel prices at the intersection of Interstate 35 and State Highway 7 in southern Oklahoma. In case you’re wondering where that is along I-35, it’s …
Tulsa’s Empire Petroleum Corporation says it’s soon going to be trading over the broad-market Russell 3000 Index. The company, with current producing assets in Texas, Louisiana, North Dakota, Montana and New Mexico, is set to join the Index at the conclusion of the 2022 Russell indexes annual reconstitution on June 27, 2022. Empire is included on …
Mammoth Energy Services came out again this week with a demand that Puerto Rico pay the Oklahoma City company hundreds of millions it is owed over its power restoration work following Hurricane Maria in 2017. In a press release, Mammoth issued the call on the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, better known as PREPA, …
County Commissioners in Olathe, Kansas decided to restrict the size of a proposed large solar farm, keeping it to 2,000 acres. Johnson County Commissioners, in a special meeting this week voted to support the restrictions after NextEra Energy unveiled plans last year to build a 3,000 acre solar farm reported Fox 4 TV news. …
Biofuel producers are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA announced the $700 million in relief to more than 100 biofuel producers and nearly 200 facilities and much of it to firms in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas reported the Lincoln Journal-Star. Click here for Lincoln …
An environmental activist sentenced to eight years in prison for trying to sabotage construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline has lost her case with a federal appeals court in Iowa. The court in Des Moines, Iowa upheld the prison sentence for Jessica Reznick who pleaded guilty last year to a charge of conspiracy to …
