Kansas congressman Ron Estes wants to make sure the U.S. Interior Department won’t be able to put restraints on land use by claiming the lesser prairie chicken is threatened or endangered. He introduced legislation to prohibit such a move after federal wildlife officials in November registered the bird as threatened in Kansas and endangered …
December 9, 2022 archive
Headlines of national and world energy stories
** Two oilfield workers were killed this past week while working at a rig site near San Augustine, Texas. A loose hydraulic line exploded when workers attempted to restart. ** Ford sent out an email to retirement-eligible salaried employees in September with a warning and a bit of advice about retiring this year to maximize a lump sum …
New style of solar farm to be built in Texas
Texas will be the site of the next solar project of Erthos, Inc., the company that designed solar operations that sit directly on the ground rather than on legs. Erthos signed an agreement with Austin-based Industrial Sun LCC for a new solar farm to be built in Texas but the site was not revealed …
New Mexico Senator wants more money for plugging of abandoned wells
New Mexico U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan wants still more federal funding of the plugging of abandoned oil and gas wells that dot his state as well as Oklahoma and others. He has filed a bill to amend the President’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to earmark hundreds of millions of dollars more for …
Keystone pipeline leak in Kansas could affect Oklahoma’s Cushing hub
The Keystone Pipeline oil leak into a Kansas creek on Wednesday was estimated at 14,000 barrels of crude oil and could impact the amount of crude in storage at the Cushing hub in Oklahoma. The leak occurred in Mill Creek near the north Kansas town of Washington reported the Kansas City Star. Now there …
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