With growing drought conditions across Oklahoma, wildfires persist in keeping firefighters busy. Over the weekend, the Oklahoma Forestry Division reported most in the southeast part of the state where most counties in that region have burn bans in effect. The Kerns Ranch Fire in Pushmataha County is the largest with 3,350 acres burned and …
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Pipeline developer takes Iowa landowners to court
The efforts of some Iowa landowners to block surveyors from entering their property for development of a controversial liquid carbon dioxide pipeline landed recently in court. Navigator Heartland Greenway asked a district judge in Woodbury County to end the delay tactics of the landowners and allow surveyors to go about their work reported the …
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** Ian’s death toll rises to at least 62 people as search and cleanup efforts continue in Florida and the Southeast, even as flooding issues continue to worsen in parts of the state. ** More than 100,000 customers in Puerto Rico still don’t have power more than two weeks after Hurricane Fiona knocked out its grid. ** BNSF Railway Co. aims to invest …
Hamm’s $10 million gift to Bismarck university to boost engineering
A note in the Williston Daily Harold of North Dakota mentioned how Oklahoma billionaire Harold Hamm’s recent $10 million donation to a Bismarck university might do something toward eliminating an engineering shortage in the state. Hamm, the founder of Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources, contributed the $10 million to the new Hamm School of Engineering …
Tribal leaders critical of Biden administration’s oil and gas restrictions
Some Native American leaders are critical of the Biden administration’s efforts to restrict oil, gas and coal production by tribes on their lands. They contend the administration has a set of double standards, expressing support for increasing tribal sovereignty but at the same time limiting fossil fuel production reported Fox News Digital. Click here …
Colorado geologist to take another shot at Alaska’s North Slope
Colorado geologist Bill Armstrong, the owner of North Slope Energy, a firm based in Denver, is well known for his role in the discovery of a giant Alaska oil field in 2013. Now he plans a new venture in Alaska’s North Slope—this time on federal land west of the existing development reported The Anchorage …
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