The Oklahoma State House went back to work Monday after a weekend session where little if any progress was reported on a budget fix. The “fix” includes a possible hike in the gross production tax on oil and gas, raising it to 4 percent on new wells. But the House Joint Committee on Appropriations and …
Earthquake attorney Scott Poynter reports a lawsuit filed in the Pawnee Nation courts blaming two energy companies for the 2016 Labor Day weekend quake near Pawnee is moving ahead. On his law firm’s website, the Little Rock, Arkansas attorney indicating Pawnee Nation Judge Dianne Barker Harold heard arguments on Friday in the case. The case …
While the state legislature struggles over a budget fix bill, one including a proposed 6-cent-a-gallon jump in the motor fuels tax, a new poll shows most Oklahomans don’t want it. The Sooner Poll by News 9 and News on 6 found 52.7 percent are opposed to the plan and 44.7 percent of them are “strongly …
Oklahoma U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe and James Lankford are among several oil state Senators who wrote to President Trump asking for a meeting with him to discuss the controversial Renewable Fuel Standard. Their letter came after Midwest lawmakers pressured the Trump administration to continue supporting the RFS. And it was considered a big win for …
High school students and officials in Broken Arrow have started working together in an environmental conservation project involving a floating wetland. As the Tulsa World recently reported, the new joint conservation partnership focuses on a detention pond across from the Broken Arrow High School. Eventually, students and city workers will use the project to target …
An economist is predicting that Oklahoma will soon jump from number five in oil production to third in the U.S. It’s the prediction of Mark Snead, president and economist of RegionTrack who spoke recently at the Enid Regional Development Alliance’s quarterly luncheon, according to the Enid News. “We are looking for record production level, in …
Senator Jim Inhofe apparently is showing Democrats in the Senate ‘Two Can Play This Game’ by putting an indefinite hold on Democratic FERC nominee Richard Glick. It’s in response to the actions of Democrats to approve some of President Trumps EPA picks. As a result of the hold on Glick, Inhofe’s move could result in …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality is spreading the word that grants up to $1,000 are available to promote environmental learning and education among the young. A total of $10,000 in grants will be awarded in early 2018 to the winning applicants. They are sponsored by the Oklahoma Environmental Quality Education Committee and are available …
Concerns over whether wastewater disposal wells will cause earthquakes prompted officials in Lawrence, Kansas to recently call on the state corporation commission to change its rules. The governments of Douglas County and Lawrence want changes to the state regulations after an energy company proposed to pump wastewater into wells in rural Eudora, according to a …
Houston-based Linn Energy Inc. likes to say it focuses its national drilling effort in the SCOOP and STACK in western Oklahoma and recently made its point with the $285 million sale of assets in the Williston Basin. The company sold its interest on Oct. 23 in nearly 20,000 net acres in North Dakota, South Dakota …