One of those critical of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s decision to allow OG&E install a $500,000 scrubber at its coal-fired power plant at Red Rock is Rep. Richard Morrissette. The Oklahoma City Democrat is also a candidate for Corporation Commissioner Dana Murphy’s seat and called the recent Commission vote a “catastrophe.” “For this state and …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s controversial decision allowing OG&E to install a $500,000 scrubber on its coal-fired Sooner Power Plant at Red Rock is being called a “catastrophe” by critics and a forced decision by “Big Brother” by one commissioner. It took only 8 minutes for the Commission to meet and make the decision, one …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission approved a plan by the state’s largest electric utility to spend about $500 million to upgrade its coal-fired power plant in northern Oklahoma. The three-member regulatory panel voted unanimously on Thursday that the plan by Oklahoma Gas & Electric to install dry scrubbers at its Sooner Power Plant near Red Rock …
Oklahoma producers on Monday fired back at environmental groups in a legal tussle in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, asking for dismissal of a lawsuit over alleged oil and natural gas injection well-induced earthquakes in the state. At issue is a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club (Sierra Club v. …
The slump in crude prices is starting to show up as missed payments by consumers in the oil patch, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal. In states from Oklahoma and Texas to North Dakota and Wyoming, rising unemployment in the energy sector is pushing up loan delinquencies and raising the risk …
Billionaire energy investor T. Boone Pickens said earlier this week that he believes the U.S. oil industry is “dead in the water” as OPEC members continue to pump more crude and U.S. companies curb drilling. Speaking at a dinner hosted by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, Pickens that he doesn’t expect U.S. drilling operations to pick up again any time …
The U.S. House Armed Services Committee, including Oklahoma Representatives Steve Russell and Jim Bridenstine turned back a move by a Democratic Representative to strip part of a national defense spending bill that included exemption of protection for the greater sage-grouse on military lands. The vote was 27-35 against removing the limits as part of …
Senator Jim Inhofe says as chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, he’s been able to get a Water Resources Development Act of 2016 approved that will directly benefit Oklahoma. “WRDA 2016 ensures that Oklahoma projects, including the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System and the Tulsa and West Tulsa Levee System, continue …
Before joining others on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee in approving a $610.5 billion National Defense Spending bill this week, U.S. Rep. Steve Russell waged a fight against spending billions on new engines for America’s space rockets. As the Committee hearing seeped into the early morning hours of Thursday, the Congressman said his …
Texas energy investor T. Boone Pickens predicts New York business entrepreneur Donald Trump will win the Republican presidential nomination and the White House. The CEO and Chairman of BP Capital Management said in a recent interview that Trump would be the only candidate to push real change in the US. Pickens, an Oklahoma native and …
