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NARO to Hold STACK Town-Hall Meeting
The National Association of Royal Owners is planning a STACK town hall meeting Thursday night to educate landowners about leases as the oil play gains widespread interest among oil and gas explorers. The meeting will be held at the Canadian Valley Technology Center located on old highway 66 midway between El Reno and Yukon. Jay Freede, …
EPA Offers Glowing Description of Scott Pruitt’s New Job
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was set to hold his first meeting with EPA employees on Tuesday. It was slated to be a webcast to all employees. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency wasted little time in creating a website for Pruitt’s new job. Here is how it appears on the EPA website: “On February 17, 2017, …
The Southeast Gets Its First Wind Farm
The southeastern part of the U.S. gets its first wind farm. The Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East is in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Developers say the wind farm will generate enough electricity to power 61,000 homes. The Internet retailer Amazon has agreed to buy some of the power from the electric grid. The first phase …
Pennsylvania Points to Minor Earthquakes Linked to Fracking
While Oklahoma has attracted most of the interest nationally regarding connections between earthquakes and wastewater injection wells, experts in Pennsylvania claim to have found a similar connection. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection contends the hydraulic fracturing operations have caused low-level earthquakes in the state. The minor earthquakes occurred last April in Lawrence county near …
Permian’s Popularity is Soaring
The Permian Basin in west Texas and southeast New Mexico remains the number one interest of oil and gas exploration in the U.S. Not even Oklahoma’s growing STACK and SCOOP plays can compare. The Permian Basin Petroleum Association says more than 40 percent of the rig activity in the U.S. is in the Permian. Further, …
Attorneys Think They Have Found a Significant Memo in Fighting Dakota Access Pipeline
Environmentalists and members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe who are fighting the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline think they have something that could stop construction. It’s an overlooked memo from the top lawyer in the Obama administration’s Interior Department. Written by Interior Solicitor Hilary Tompkins, the 35-page memo outlined reasons the government …
Pruitt Gives First Interview After Taking Over at EPA
Maybe Scott Pruitt won’t be as bad as environmentalists and Democrats think as he is now in charge of the direction where the Environmental Protection Agency will head in a Trump administration. In his first interview since being nominated last year, Pruitt told the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel there is much to do hitting …
Oklahoma Average Gasoline Prices Dropped Slightly in Past Week
While there are indications that gasoline prices in Oklahoma and elsewhere across the country could possibly climb by the time Memorial Day arrives, prices have slipped slightly in the past week. GasBuddy.com reports Oklahoma’s new average is $2.06 a gallon, a drop of 3 cents over the last several days. The national average is $2.28, …
Proving Grounds Named to Test Self-Driving Cars
Texas and Iowa are among ten sites chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation to be proving grounds for self-driving cars or vehicles. The government calls them “automated vehicle technologies” where the proving grounds will “foster innovations that can safely transform personal and commercial mobility, expand capacity, and open new doors to disadvantaged people and …
Original Earthquake Lawyer Warns Law Firms to Back Off His Clients
The attorney who filed the first lawsuit accusing energy companies of causing damaging earthquakes in Oklahoma is telling other law firms—-back off! Scott Poynter of the Poynter Law Group based in Little Rock, Arkansas sent letters Feb. 17 to six law firms telling them to stop contacting his clients. “My clients have been receiving solicitation …