Bermuda-grass farmer Don Eckroat of Oklahoma City isn’t giving up on his fight against a Phillips 66 crude oil pipeline project going through his property. He’s now complaining how the construction that started in the last few weeks resulted in an 80-foot wide path across his property and also flooding. KFOR TV News reported …
November 12, 2024 archive
Muskogee Bitmining operation to expand
As Bitcoin soared to an alll-time high of nearly $85,000 this week, in part according to some analysts, over the re-election of Donald Trump and his promise to create crypto-friendly legislation, a bitmining operation supported by the state of Oklahoma is still in the expansion stage near Muskogee. For now, the 42-acre site is …
EPA comes out with flaring fee on oil and gas producers
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency just implemented another restrictive rule on the oil and gas industry—a fee for flaring. The EPA took the final steps in its crackdown on methane leaks and did so as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. It is considered to be a move that will make it more difficult …
Energy briefs
** The incoming Trump administration plans to shrink two national monuments in Utah shortly after taking office, which will open hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land to oil and gas drilling and uranium and coal mining. ** The Biden administration plans to release a blueprint for an additional 200 GW of nuclear power by 2050, …
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