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Round one goes to retired state worker who sued Treasurer over Energy Discrimination Elimination Act
An Oklahoma County Judge has ruled against dismissing a lawsuit against Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ over his enforcement of the state’s controversial Energy Discrimination Elimination Act of 2022. District Judge Sheila Stinson denied the Treasurer’s request to dismiss the lawsuit filed last fall (CV-2023-3021) by Don Keenan, a former President of the Oklahoma …
Weakened dollar sends crude oil prices up
Crude oil prices shot up a dollar a barrel in Tuesday’s trading largely because the U.S. dollar index dropped to its lowest level in more than a week. At the same time, most Oklahoma energy stocks made gains for the day. Helping boost the crude oil was a shift by investors away from …
Rep Lucas to Energy Secretary Granholm—-“You’ve got some splaining to do!”
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas is still demanding more answers from the Biden administration over its decision earlier in the year to suspend LNG exports and construction of new LNG plants. He doesn’t like the answers he got from Energy leaders earlier in the year. In his capacity as chairman of the House Science, Space, …
OKC’s fight with regulators over franchise fees and storm bonds awaits a court decision
Not quite two years after Oklahoma City challenged Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners over a franchise fee decision involving millions of dollars, the matter rests with the State Supreme Court. There is no indication when the Oklahoma Supreme Court justices might render a decision. They’ve had the case for the past five months. The City filed …
Winners named in ODOT’s Trash Poster Contest
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has announced the winners of the 2024 Trash Poster Contest, which celebrates and raises awareness of the importance of keeping our land clean and grand. Fourteen Oklahoma students were recognized for their anti-littering artwork, which will be featured in the state’s 2024 annual Trash Poster Contest, designed to inspire …
Oklahoma utility regulators to meet Wednesday
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners will hold their first public meeting in more than a week when they gather Wednesday afternoon to receive reports and make some decisions on requests from utilities. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m in the Concourse theater of the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building at the State Capitol Complex. The …
Author—Biden has no one to blame but himself over failure to refill nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve
While the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve sits well less than full because of the President’s decision to sell reserves to lower gasoline prices two years ago, he also suspended plans to refill the SPR—-prices are too high. One man writing in Real Clear Energy says President Biden has no one to blame but himself, …
BLM might go back on its word for oil leases in New Mexico
Three years after the federal government approved oil and gas drilling leases on nearly 6,000 acres of land in New Mexico, it is thinking of revoking the contracts. The Bureau of Land Management is reported to be reconsidering a plan to lease the land in question in Eddy and Lea Counties, two counties …
Biden’s war on natural gas didn’t stop record use last year in the US
Despite the work of the Biden administration and environmentalists against the use of natural gas, the U.S. had a record use of it in 2023. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported this week that in 2023, 89.1 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas was consumed in the U.S., the most on record. Since …
Energy briefs
** For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos. Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away, and at 46 years old, the probe has shown multiple …
