** Top European energy companies on Friday asked U.S. regulators to reject Venture Global LNG’s request for a one-year construction permit extension to its Louisiana export plant. Shell PLC, Italian utility Edison, Repsol, Orlen SA, and Galp Energia SA oppose the request because they believe Venture Global LNG has completed its plant but has failed to give …
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** The Senate has passed legislation that would expand and extend compensation for victims of U.S. nuclear testing — but it faces uncertain prospects going forward. It would revive legislation that is set to expire in June that compensates Americans exposed to radiation byWorld War II-era nuclear testing and Cold War-era uranium mining. ** The CEO of Rivian …
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** The world’s largest nitrogen fertilizer plant, which would make ammonia out of natural gas, could be headed for a former coal mining site in rural West Virginia. TransGas Development Systems, a New York-based company, is seeking an air quality permit for a facility in Mingo County with six ammonia manufacturing units capable of producing up …
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** Wyoming’s Office of State Lands and Investments began holding an oil and gas lease auction this week, one that’s considered one of its smallest since 2017. The auction underscores the challenges the office (OSLI) faces with promoting a carbon-based energy program to raise revenue. ** Chevron recently revealed plans to build its first solar-to-hydrogen production facility …
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** A powerful blizzard in northern California intensified over the weekend, leaving drivers stranded and knocking out power to thousands of homes. A second system could bring more snowfall to the region, according to the National Weather Service. ** Owners of Nissan Leaf electric cars have accused the firm of “dumping its pioneers” after it announced …
Writer says wind farms are not farms…but industrial sites
As a fight between Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry and the renewable power groups took shape in recent days, it would appear more governments around the U.S. are pulling in the reins on the growth of wind and solar farms. With 40 years under his belt in the US energy industry, David Blackmon …
Legislators have yet to hear how much a renewable energy tax would raise in Oklahoma
The tax bill targeting Oklahoma’s renewable energy industry has yet to make it to the floor of the State House a week after Speaker Charles McCall proposed the measure in response to a lack of movement on the Right of First Refusal power for utilities. The House Impact study on fiscal impact of the …
Oil and gas fight with wind is resurrected in Oklahoma
Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall’s push for an electricity production tax on renewable energy sources in the state just renewed an age-old fight between the oil and gas industry and the firms behind wind and solar operations His creation of the tax in the form of HB2950 stunned the wind and solar industry in …
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** The American Petroleum Institute, an oil and gas lobbying group, is petitioning to eliminate the Biden administration’s pause on new approvals for natural gas exports. The organization, along with other trade groups, filed what’s known as a “petition for rehearing” on the pause. Such a petition is not a lawsuit, but it could be thefirst …
Oklahoma farms to receive USDA funding for renewable energy projects
Four Oklahoma farms are among an estimated 400 across the nation set to receive part of the USDA’s $144 million Rural Energy for America Program. The program was announced Monday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack who said the project, with the cooperative of the Energy Department, will help small and medium-sized farms save money …
