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Report Claims Legislators are Protecting Oil and Gas from Tax Hikes
While legislators shout and bicker over where to raise new revenue to offset a $1.3 billion budget hole, their actions to protect the oil and gas industry from taking a hit are being noticed by others. A report by Reuters paints the picture of legislators protecting the industry from being hurt by reduced tax credits …
University of Texas Researchers Blame Oil and Gas Industry on Increased Earthquakes in Lone Star State
University of Texas researchers now are making the claim that nearly 90 percent of the earthquakes in Texas in the past ten years have been caused by oil and gas activities. Geoscientist Cliff Frohlich at the University of Texas-Austin is one of them and believes nearly nine in 10 of the quakes were directly the …
Texas Wind Company Proposes Floating Wind Farms Off Coast of Hawaii
A Texas wind energy company is one of those proposing the idea of floating wind turbines off the shores of Hawaii to bring more renewable energy to the state. A.W. Hawaii Wind is a Texas subsidiary of Denmark-based Alpha Wind Energy and wants to build two offshore floating wind farms, each generating about 400 megawatts …
More Duncan Residents Sue Halliburton Over Old Rocket Motor Cleaning Operation
While 80 more Duncan residents signed onto a federal lawsuit against Halliburton Energy Services because of groundwater contamination dating back to the 1960s, a federal judge in Oklahoma City has refused to limit the testimony of a company hydrology expert at the approaching trial. U.S. District judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued her ruling this week as …
California Jury Indicts Pipeline Company Over 2015 Oil Spill
Houston-based Plains All-American Pipeline has been indicted on criminal charges by a California grand jury over the May 2015 Santa Barbara oil spill that released about 3,000 barrels of oil onto a beach and into the Pacific Ocean. At least 4 criminal charges were returned by the grand jury including four felonies charged the firm …
Governor Signs Water Protection Bill into Law
One of the bills signed into law this week by Gov. Mary Fallin was HB 2446, a water protection bill. Authored by Rep. Terry O’Donnell and Sen. Dan Newberry, the measure “declares the protection of the beneficial uses of provided bodies of water in Oklahoma to be a compelling state interest subject to legislative authority …
TransCanada Expands Holdings in the U.S.
TransCanada, the company still fighting to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the Midwest is buying Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. in a nearly $13 billion agreement. It also owns and operates the Keystone pipeline extending from Cushing, Oklahoma south to the Gulf Coast. Columbia’s Board of Directors has unanimously approved the deal involving a …
BIA Argues Osage Co. Oil Producers Lawsuit Cannot be Heard Until Administrative Steps Are Finished
Tulsa U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell now must decide whether to allow oil and gas producers in Osage County proceed with their lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs or dismiss the suit filed in 2015. Both sides, the Osage Producers Association that sued the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the BIA …
$1 billion Wind Farm Proposed for Eastern Colorado
A $1 billion wind farm is being proposed for northeast Colorado by the state’s largest electric utility. Xcel Energy has filed documents with the Public Utilities Commission to build the Rush Creek Wind Project over 90,000 acres in Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties. Once completed the 300-turbine farm would generate …
Indian Tribe Loses Fight to Block Offshore Wind Farm
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled against the Narragansett Indian Tribe in its fight to block construction of the nation’s first offshore wind farm. The tribe had sought a temporary restraining order against installation of a transmission cable, contending Indian artifacts had been discovered and improperly removed during the digging of a trench. …
