Icy and bitterly cold weather early Monday resulted in crashes throughout Oklahoma City and forced the cancellation of events and postponement of others. Included in the list of groups forced to delay their meetings was the Oklahoma Transportation Commission. It was scheduled to meet Monday morning but leaders quickly postponed the monthly meeting …
Questions are being raised about the developer of an underground nuclear waste storage facility in the southern part of New Mexico. Some members of the state’s congressional delegation have joined environmentalists and other opponents in contending the operation was rushed through the approval process during the pandemic reported Searchlight New Mexico. Click here for …
Regulators in Kansas are still reviewing and conducting a close study of Evergy’s proposed clean energy plan which includes $5.6 billion in upgrades of its transmission and distribution. The Topeka Capital Journal reports the Kansas Corporation Commission has gone into a deep study of the impact of the company’s Sustainability Transformation Plan.” Every, the …
Nearly two months after it announced the sale of its NorthPark Basin assets in Colorado, SandRidge Energy said the deal was finalized this week. The company divested its holdings in a $47 million cash deal that was effective Oct. 1, 2020. The buyer was not disclosed at the time of the original announcement and …
An OGE customer in Arkansas has just finished the first part of a project to get its electricity from the power of the sun rather than the Oklahoma-based utility. City leaders in Alma held a “Flip the Switch” event on Friday for a new solar array to power the city’s wastewater treatment facility and …
Environmental groups and Democrats in the Texas legislature are pushing a bill to create a tax on gas that is vented or flared during production. The bill by Austin Democratic Rep. Vikki Goodwin would put a 25% levy on the produced gas. “—for oil producers, they see it as a waste product. Rather than …
This is the week that Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy will formally emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy it filed last June and the company has made it clear it intends to be a different operation. Under a presentation for investors, the company boldly stated in a topic headline, “Chesapeake’s Path to Emergence is Clear.” …
Oklahoma regulators have asked some oil and gas well operators in northern Oklahoma to cease operations following a 4.2 magnitude earthquake that struck near Covington in Garfield County. The Corporation Commission’s Induced Seismicity Department directed the operators to take the action. No injuries or damage were reported from the 4.2 magnitude quake reported Mike …
The French oil and gas group Total increased its U.S. solar power production by adding another 2.2GW with the purchase of four large scale solar projects near Houston, Texas. The company did not disclose how much it paid for the solar farms from SunChase Power, but said it will turn green its …
Texas remains far and above the number one wind industry state in the U.S. as the industry recorded its strongest year ever last year with record growth. New construction in Oklahoma ranked third in the nation. The wind industry nearly doubled installations over those in 2019 and built nearly 17 gigawatts of capacity. The …
