Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will meet Tuesday morning to consider a number of changes to Petroleum Storage Tank rules. The proposed new rules apply to fuel inspection, antifreeze, underground storage tanks, aboveground storage tanks, indemnity fund, and corrective action of storage tank releases. Commissioners might also consider a possible vote on a recommended change in …
October 2022 archive
Navajo community hurt in coal plant shutdown in New Mexico
Last week’s shutdown of the San Juan coal-fired generating station in Farmington, New Mexico might have been cause for celebration by environmentalists and others who contend the plant merely polluted the atmosphere. However, the shutdown did a few other things. It put hundreds out of work and harmed the nearby Navajo community where families …
Corporation Commission deadline approaches for new filing system
A deadline is approaching for energy firms that do filings with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Beginning November 1 of this year, all filing submissions to the commission Court Clerk will have to be made through the agency’s new Electronic Case Filing System. The only exception will be pro se or confidential fillings as allowed …
Promises made—promises kept by owner of Pueblo wind plant
When South-Korea based CS wind took over a wind turbine factor in Pueblo, Colorado 14 months ago, leadership promised expanded hiring and production. The promises are coming true as the firm recently announced plans to not only expand what was already the world’s largest wind tower manufacturing plant but to create a workforce of …
Devon and Ovintiv award STEM grants to FFA chapters
Two major oil and gas producers, Devon Energy and Ovintiv Inc. handed out more grants to help Oklahoma FFA chapters with science and math education. The FFA chapters in Guymon, Kingfisher and Shattuck were named winners during the FFA Northwest Area Chapter Officer Leadership Training (COLT) held in Enid. They received technology and innovation …
Wildfires plague eastern Oklahoma
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 …
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 …
More energy headlines
** 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 …