** Iowa House lawmakers advance bills that would strengthen eminent domain protections, limit permit lengths and include more involvement of a consumer advocacy office in an effort to clamp down on carbon pipelines. ** The federal Bonneville Power Administration could lose up to 20% of its workforce to the Trump administration’s job cuts and hiring freeze, raising concerns about …
February 14, 2025 archive
Former Corporation Commissioner says Rep. Caldwell’s electric transmission bill is “wrongheaded”
Rep. Trey Caldwell of Lawton doesn’t refer to the controversial issue of ROFR or Right of First Refusal in his HB2747, a bill dealing with competitive bidding by utilities. But former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth says it’s a ROFR bill and he’s against it. “That’s not accelerating economic development. It’s not consistent with …
Crude oil and OK energy stocks finished down on Friday
Crude oil prices and most Oklahoma energy stocks finished down in Friday’s trading as analysts blamed the prospects for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine for possibly easing global supply disruptions. The disruptions might end if US oil sanctions were ended against Moscow. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark in the U.S. dropped 55 …
Legislator files another Supreme Court challenge of Todd Hiett’s votes
One of the three Republican legislators who took Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett to court over the sexual abuse allegations against him, filed another appeal with the Supreme Court on Thursday, this one challenging the recently-approved PSO rate hike. The challenge by Rep. Tom Gann, Inola, came only days after the court dismissed the appeal he …