A southern Oklahoma school district has received a $50,000 grant as a result of ALLETE Clean Energy’s new wind farm under construction near Ardmore. ALLETE announced the grant to the Mill Creek School District, a grant in partnership with GE Renewable Energy and Wanzek. The donation is a relief to Mill Creek School administrators …
The COVID-19 pandemic has struck energy companies hard and Tulsa-based Cypress Environmental Partners, L.P. says it resulted in a $1.3 million second quarter loss for the company. And management says there is a liklihood of more volatility in the market for the remainder of the year. “The second wave of virus cases, the reinstitution …
Members of the League of Women Voters in Fort Worth are speaking out against the rail movement of nuclear waste that would pass through their city enroute to two possible waste sites, one in Texas and another in eastern New Mexico. One would be at the existing low-level storage facility in Andrews County, Texas. The …
He’s building a more than $1 billion electric plant in Austin, Texas so it only makes sense for Elon Musk to develop a resort—turning the tiniest of Texas villages into a SpaceX resort. The San Antonio Express News says SpaceX, the American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company, is currently building its new passenger …
The state of Texas and the city of Austin will pay dearly after landing the new Tesla truck plant, a plant that will cost the two governments more than $1 billion a year in tax breaks. When Tesla, Inc. made its splashy announcement last month that it will build a $1.1 billion Cybertruck factory …
After closing its former El Reno command center last year in Oklahoma and laying off hundreds of workers, Halliburton sold the new operation only a few months ago. Now the company is planning to auction surplus real estate in five states and Canada. Reports indicate Williams and Williams, a leader in global live and …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says the former methane rules created under the Obama administration were “unnecessary and burdensome.” That’s why the Senator, who is a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee had nothing but praise for EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler who rolled back the rule. “These new rules are …
As the International Energy Agency applied a deeper cut to its forecast for global crude demand this year, oil futures finished lower. The drop was also felt by Oklahoma-related energy companies and came as two Arab nations eased the risks to supply from the region. West Texas Intermediate crude for September delivery lost 43 …
As six former administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency called to reset the rolled back rules of the EPA under the Trump administration, the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma said otherwise. Especially for one of the rules. The Alliance on Thursday came out with a statement applauding the EPA’s roll back of a duplicative …
The federal government’s labeling of Oklahoma’s bridges as among the top ten safest in the U.S. prompted Republicans in the State House to take credit and at the same time blame Democrats for the previously dangerous bridge conditions that led to a bad reputation for unsafe bridges. State Rep. Avery Frix, R-Muskogee, chair of the …
