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Democrats’ clean energy bill includes amendments from OK Reps
While the White House has already threatened to veto a sprawling clean energy package proposed by Democrats, the House Rules Committee lined up 98 amendments to be heard this week including three by Oklahoma Representatives. Republican Rep. Frank Lucas offered two amendments which according to the committee will get 10 minutes of debate. Each …
Pipeline billionaire is big giver to pro-Trump PAC
Oil pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren gave $10 million to a pro-Trump super-PAC last month, according to Federal Election Commission records released Sunday. Forbes reported the contribution puts the Dallas tycoon and leader of Energy Transfer Partners as one of the top financial supporters of President Trump in his bid for reelection. Warren and his wife Amy …
Senator targets abandoned and orphaned wells
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D) announced two bills to tackle the clean up of abandoned, or “orphaned,” oil and gas wells. Bennet’s Oil and Gas Bonding Reform and Orphaned Well Remediation Act would create a fund to expand orphaned well cleanup on federal, state and tribal lands and would boost individual and statewide bonding requirements to $75,000 and …
Here’s why you should pay attention to energy cases going before Supreme Court
The fate of some energy cases will be decided by an 8-member U.S. Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. POLITICO reported that one of the cases includes a fight involving three states over coal exports. Another is considered what it called a “bellwether” case in the climate change lawsuits brought …
New Mexico partnership to study electric grid
New Mexico’s largest electric utility and one of the nation’s premiere federal research laboratories will team up on a series of projects aimed at making the electric grid more resilient as the state prepares to add more renewable energy to the mix, officials said Monday. The research and development partnership between Sandia National Laboratories …
Arkansas’ Windstream Completes Restructuring, Goes Private
Windstream Holdings Inc. of Little Rock announced this week that it has officially restructured and is now a private company. The telecommunications firm declared bankruptcy last year and has been working to remake itself and cut debt reported Arkansas Business. The company said it’s reduced its debt by about two-thirds, or more than $4 billion, and …
Energy news in brief
** General Mills announced a pledge to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent across its full value chain – from farm to fork to landfill – over the next 10 years. The company also committed to a long-term goal to achieve net zero emission levels by 2050. ** Private equity partnership Pelican Energy Partners has an …
Matador reports big producers in New Mexico
Dallas-based Matador Resources announced the completion of its first four Boros wells in the Stateline asset area in southeast New Mexico with production ranging from more than 3,100 barrels of oil equivalent up to nearly 4,600 barrels of oil equivalent. The company said all four Eddy County wells are two-mile laterals which were part …
More drilling interest in Oklahoma
Some of the latest permits to drill issued by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission showed a slight increase in drilling in the state. Mack Energy Company received a permit to drill two SW Wildcat Jim Deese Unit #17-2-1 wells at 07 2S 2W in Carter County. The site is southeast of Ratliff City. Red Rocks …
Chamber’s endorsement of Rep. Horn still catches headlines
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce decision to give a controversial endorsement of Oklahoma Democrat Congresswoman Kendra Horn is still making the political rounds. Grist, in a report about the Chamber’s endorsements for Rep. Horn and other Democrats who strongly support Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised more than the eyebrows of Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce …