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 …
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 …
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 …
Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries, Inc. says its new 375,000 ton ammonia plant is now operational at the El Dorado, Arkansas facility. “We are pleased to have achieved this critical milestone with the start-up of the new ammonia plant at our El Dorado facility,” said Daniel Greenwell, LSB’s Chief Executive Officer. “We believe that the ammonia plant …
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 …
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. …
While Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s attacking Democratic Attorneys General for targeting energy firms, the Attorney General in Texas has gone to court asking a judge to block U.S. Virgin Islands officials from subpoenaing 40 years of internal climate change documents from Exxon Mobil Corp. Ken Paxton calls it “a fishing expedition of the …
This week’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Oklahoma City-based SandRidge energy brought the number of energy producers in bankruptcy to 77 since the beginning of 2015, according to Haynes and Boone, the bankruptcy law firm based in Texas. It also raised the total of secured and unsecured liabilities and debt in the cases to nearly …
The 16 Democratic Attorneys General who plan to use their subpoena power to target oil companies and utilities in a fight over global warming have run into a buzz saw with Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a man who calls a spade a spade. “This is all about trying to take the courts and the …
Oil futures staged a resurgence on Monday, jumping more than 3% as traders heralded the recent news of a supply shortfall, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, June West Texas Intermediate crude gained $1.40, or 3.3%, to $47.72 a barrel. That was the highest settlement since early November. July Brent crude, …
