** A federal court upholds the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow drilling project in Alaska and allows construction to continue, but orders the federal Bureau of Land Management to address a flaw in its environmental review. ** A federal oil and gas lease sale in Wyoming nets $7.7 million, which an industry insider described …
Category: Solar Energy in Oklahoma
NextEra and solar farm opponents await county commission vote
Wagoner County Commissioners are expected to take a vote Monday on a proposed 4,900-acre solar farm proposed by NextEra Energy and also has its share of opponents around the small town of Porter. NextEra, in its presentation earlier this year to the county commissioners, maintained the Persica Solar Farm would be an economic …
NextEra says its solar farm in Wagoner County would be a “good” neighbor
NextEra Energy Resources is disputing some of the claims made by opponents against the firm’s proposed 4,900-acre Persica Solar farm near Porter in Oklahoma’s Wagoner County. The group called Concerned Citizens of Wagoner County issued a more than 30-page report it described as a “detailed rebuttal” to claims made by NextEra Energy about …
Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen—a focus on opposition arising to energy projects
Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen and in today’s podcast, it’s a discussion of friction created by restricted supply and increased demand for energy everywhere. What’s the impact on Oklahoma? It’s the thread running through our conversation in this episode.
Energy briefs
** General Motors’ $4 billion plan to move vehicle production from Mexico to the U.S. includes making gasoline-powered vehicles at a Michigan plant that was previously retooled to produce electric vehicles. ** The U.S. Justice Department finds the 1906 Antiquities Act authorizes the president to alter or eliminate national monuments designated under the law, opening …
Oklahomans against solar and wind projects aren’t alone—it’s happening across the nation
What would appear to be a surge in the past year of opposition to renewable energy expansion projects in Oklahoma might be compared to what is happening across the U.S……falling support for wind and solar projects. Such an assessment is backed by the results of a a survey released last week by the Pew Research Center. …
Oklahoma legislator chaired recent national energy forum
Rep. Ken Luttrell, R-Ponca City, vice chair of the Oklahoma House Energy Committee, recently served as chairman of the 2025 Federal Energy and Environmental Matters Conference, hosted by the Center for Legislative Energy and Environmental Research. The event took place June 5-7 in Washington, D.C. As chairman, Luttrell led discussions on pressing energy and environmental …
Opponents to proposed Wagoner County solar farm speak out
As Wagoner County Commissioners prepare to vote next week on a controversial 4,900-acre solar farm near the northeast Oklahoma town of Porter, some residents have responded with their study of claims made by developer NextEra Energy. The more than 30-page report by Concerned Citizens of Wagoner County is described as “a detailed rebuttal to …
Energy briefs
** U.S. and Chinese officials said they had agreed on a framework to put their trade truce back on track and remove China’s export restrictions on rare earths while offering little sign of a durable resolution to longstanding trade differences. ** A new lawsuit filed against Subaru and Toyota claims that the two automakers’ jointly developed electric …
Oil and gas giant Enbridge starts first solar farm in Texas
Canadian oil and gas pipeline giant Enbridge just expanded its solar farm projects with one in Texas. The company’s Orange Grove Solar project in Jim Wells County of far south Texas is provind up to 130 megawatts of clean electricity to ERCOT, the state’s electrical grid. It’s enough to power about 24,000 homes. The …