Governor Mary Fallin is out with a report indicating the state’s business climate is still positive even with a slow recovery of the state’s oil and gas industry, plus another state budget shortfall. In a recent release from her office, Gov. Fallin said the state’s gross domestic products grew 1.9 percent in the first three …
The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) announced that it is offering the following continuing education hours at its 4th Annual Educational Conference on October 5th – 6th, 2017, at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center in Norman: 8 hours of general credit by the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMS) (PACE Approved Program). 10 hours of …
TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline isn’t the only project drawing protests for the Canadian Company. Environmental activists paddled across the Potomac River on Friday in western Maryland where TransCanada is trying to build a 3 and a half mile long pipeline under the river. It’s far from the Keystone XL pipeline project being fought by activists …
NextEra Energy, the Florida company with huge wind farm operations in Oklahoma has gone to court in a controversial move in construction of a natural gas pipeline in Virginia. NextEra Energy and EQT Corporation, backers of Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC have responded to a July lawsuit by landowners fighting eminent domain in construction of the …
Those in the oil and gas industry might view what happened Thursday night in Austin, Texas by saying, “they don’t call Austin weird for nothing.” More than 100 people rallied outside city hall in a call for the city to stop using fossil fuels to power the city. They contend an Austin Energy power generation …
When Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm speaks, President Trump listens. How well he listens might be another matter. But Hamm’s latest comments concern his call for a “get tough” approach with Venezuela, according to Bloomberg News. Stop shipments of Venezuela oil into the U.S. “If the president wants to make an immediate impact on Venezuela to …
Following a recent merger, Kansas City-based Great Plains Energy announced a second quarter loss of more than $22 million. The $0.10 a share loss of average common stock in the electric-supply company compared with a second quarter 2016 earnings of $31.6 million or $0.20 a share. At the same time, the company reported losses of …
With terminals and pipeline operations in Oklahoma and several other states, Dallas-based Holly Energy Partners, L.P. has announced a $250 million purchase of pipeline operations in Wyoming and Utah. The company’s making the deal with affiliates of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. Holly Energy already owns 50% of Frontier Aspen LLC, owner of the Frontier …
He sued the state over an electric car tax and now Gary Richardson, the former U.S. Attorney running for Governor in Oklahoma is encouraged by this week’s Supreme court ruling striking down a cigarette tax. “We are encouraged by the Supreme Court upholding the intent of SQ 640, which was passed by the voters in …
An attorney who publicly released internal emails from Monsanto about its alleged cancer-causing weedkillers is in trouble with a California judge. The attorney is one of those who sued Monsanto over its Roundup herbicide, the same herbicide that is at the center of two Oklahoma City federal court lawsuits. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered attorney …