While Oklahoma has two Amazon fulfillment centers employing thousands of workers, the state of Arkansas is getting its first such center where 1,000 people will be hired in the coming year. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Amazon.com confirmed Tuesday that the 826,000-foot facility under construction on a 80-acre site at the Port of Little Rock …
** Tulsa-based OGE plans to hold a second quarter earnings conference call on Thursday, August 6 where leadership will discuss the results. The call will be held at 9 a.m. ** ONEOK, Inc.will release second quarter 2020 earnings after the market closes on July 28, 2020. ONEOK’s executive management will participate in a conference call the following …
While the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hails the court order shutting down the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline, two Oklahoma congressmen are critical of his comments. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, the Democrat from Arizona said the court ruling on Monday as well as the decision by Dominion and …
Oklahoma intends to use some of its Volkswagen settlement money on expanding the state’s EV charging stations….more than $1 million. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Office of the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment are announcing a grant program funded by the Volkswagen Settlement Environmental Mitigation Trust aimed at building …
In a sign that it is pushing ahead with the controversial move of its national headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Grand Junction, Colorado, the Bureau of Land Management has announced the selection of some top executives making the move. As the Grand Junction Sentinel reported this week, the BLM announced the appointments of five senior …
The Denver Federal Appeals Court, the same one that ruled against EPA biofuels waivers for small refinery operators such as one in Oklahoma, has ruled again against the Environmental Protection Agency. In a recent ruling, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed a win to the Sierra Club in a fight over air …
“We’re dependent on an industry that we have no control over,” said State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, who oversees oil and gas leases on state-owned land. From relishing the thought of a more than $3 billion windfall in oil and gas revenues in February to a nearly $2 billion state budget shortfall by …
Wyoming state officials plan to take advantage of the financially troubled Occidental Petroleum. A state agency met this week and decided it will bid on a package of land and minerals in Wyoming and Colorado that is owned by the company. The company has been struggling with debt taken on in last year’s $38 …
Undaunted by a legal ruling in Texas, American Electric Power Company Inc. says it will continue investing in renewable energy in the region according to Columbus Business First, a newspaper located in Columbus, Ohio where AEP is headquartered. On July 2, the Public Utility Commission of Texas denied a request by AEP affiliate Southwestern …
Major legal setbacks suffered by Dakota Access pipelines as well as the decision by Dominion and Duke Energy to cancel their proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline have some wondering if the same might occur to the Permian Highway line in Texas. Throw in setbacks experienced by the Keystone XL pipeline and speculation grows over …