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Highway Patrol Reduces Hours Due to Budget Cuts
In a move that will likely affect drivers in the oil and gas industry, coal haulers and others in the transportation business, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has announced cutbacks in patrol hours on state highways due to the state budget shortfall. The move not only puts troopers on a 100-mile-a-day restriction but applies to OHP …
Inhofe calls U.S. Government Move “heavy handed” to Protect Lesser Prairie Chicken
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe’s not happy about the actions of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its move to try and list the lesser prairie chicken species as an Endangered Species. “I am disappointed the FWS is moving ahead to relist the lesser prairie-chicken,” said Inhofe. “Just last year the Western District of Texas …
Gov. Fallin said to be ‘Leading Candidate’ for Interior Secretary
When it comes to political news in Washington, D.C. the website Politico is considered to be pretty much the Bible. And it’s reporting that Gov. Mary Fallin is the “leading candidate for Interior secretary” in the Donald Trump administration. The website quotes “three people close to Trump’s transition team.” It was last week when the …
Pipeline Protesters Face Monday Deadline to Clear Out
Those Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters in North Dakota who have the support of some Oklahoma Native American leaders, have until Monday to clear out from the federal land where they have made an encampment since last Spring. North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has ordered them to immediately leave the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers …
EPA Prepares for Current Leaders to be Swept Out in Trump Administration
A clean sweep at EPA. While Donald Trump has met with possible candidates to take over the leadership of the EPA, his transition team has also arrived at the offices of the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency’s transition director announced this week that “between now and Inauguration Day, the team will be meeting with EPA …
Rep. Mullin to Join in Election of New Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee
The chairmanship of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is expected to be determined by week’s end. It is considered a highly-sought-after position and the steering committee will meet Wednesday, following by presentations on Thursday by the interested candidates. Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin is a member of the committee and will no doubt …
Pruitt up for Consideration as EPA Head?
There is more indication that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was interviewed by Donald Trump this week not for a position in the Justice Department but as a possible head of the Environmental Protection Agency. He met with Trump on Monday in New York City, as did former Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Kathleen …
T-Boone Picks up $146 million Judgment from 3 West Texas Energy Companies
Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens and his Mesa Petroleum Partners LP have won a $146 million dollar judgment in a lawsuit against three West Texas oil and gas companies they accused of cutting Mesa out of its share of a Permian Basin deal. It was a recent unanimous verdict by a Reeves County, Texas jury …
Swiss Vote to Keep Nuke Plants——Finland Moves to Dump Coal
In case you missed it—–what two European countries are doing in regards to their energy production. Voters in Switzerland have turned down a plan to speed up the country’s move to dump nuclear energy. In a referendum on Sunday, they voted 54.2 percent to 45.8 percent against the plan promoted by the Green party to …
Concho Resources Expanding Exploration into SE New Mexico
The state of New Mexico is anticipating more oil production to result from a $430 million deal by Texas-based Concho Resources to acquire land in the northern Delaware Basin in southeastern New Mexico. Most of the land is located in the Red Hills area of Lea County and Concho’s president and chief executive Tim Leach …