August 22, 2024 archive

Hopes for an interest rate cut prompted crude oil price hike

  As crude oil prices rose more than 1% in Thursday’s trading, Oklahoma energy stocks endured moderate losses of about the same percent or less. What prompted the oil price surge was growing hopes that the Feds might cut the U.S. interest rate in a few weeks. West Texas Intermediate crude went up $1.08 or …

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Missouri utility says goodbye to wooden power poles

  Wooden power line poles are being replaced with a different kind of pole by a utility in southeast Missouri…..a pole that will be able to withstand strong winds. It’s near Morehouse, Missouri where Ameren has started the replacement process. Click here for KFVS TV News

Dems party in Chicago while the city sees higher gasoline prices

  Oh oh….while Democrats party at their national convention in Chicago and call the Kamala Harris effort to win the White House a campaign of joy, there is not joy at the gas pumps in Chicago. Prices are 20% to 23% higher than the national average. Refinery outages in the Windy City and in Ohio …

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KC Federal Reserve Bank survey found manufacturing activity declined less in August

  The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank reports its latest survey of firms in Oklahoma and other states that make up the Tenth District found manufacturing activity did not decline as much in August as it did in July. Furthermore, of those surveyed, many have positive expectations for future activity. Chad Wilkerson, senior vice president …

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Nuclear energy is MIA in Democratic Party Platform

  Observations of the Democratic party’s platform this week from author and energy journalist Robert Bryce.….they focus on nuclear power and its noted absence in what the Democrats want for the U.S. 1) The omission of nuclear energy in the party’s platform shows, yet again, that while Democrats are making climate change a top talking point …

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OGE gives a helping hand to 13 school districts as classes resume

) (Shawnee Public Schools officials receive a $2,500 check from OGE Energy Corp. Foundation for the new school year. (Left to right): Dr. Aaron Espolt, Shawnee Public Schools Superintendent; Emily Rothrock Tate, OG&E Community Affairs Manager; Christi Lovelady, Horace Mann Elementary School Principal; Michelle Wallace, Shawnee Public Schools Counseling & Community Engagement Coordinator; Jeff Cook, …

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Water in short supply in southwest Texas

  Out in the near desert-like region of Big Bend, Texas, water has become a cherished necessity. Witness the Terlingua Ranch Lodge, a 200,000 acre ranch about 70 miles from Big Bend National Park, where drinking water is for sale. But water availability will become even tighter next month as the board that directs and …

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Many landfills no longer accept old turbine blades

    The practice of sending old and outdated wind turbine blades to landfills apparently is no longer accepted, at least at many landfills across the country where wind farms are located. Many landfills refuse to accept them and instead, the wind blades are stored at accepted sites. However, as we have reported in the …

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Energy briefs

** During a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Monday, former President Trump said he’d eliminate the Biden administration’s power plant rule but was noncommittal about his position on a tax credit for electric vehicles. ** Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) indicated to reporters at the Democratic National Convention that climate legislation would be on the agenda if Democrats retain the White House and …

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