On their way to the State House of Representatives are two bills coming from the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. One measure calls for changes in the state’s mining laws that focus on the use of explosives in mines. SB 370, carried in committee by Rep. Rick West of LeFlore County amends the mining …
State environmental regulators have gathered in Washington DC for their first meting since President Trump took office along with Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the EPA. Dozens from around the U.S. are on hand for the spring meeting of the Environmental Council of States or ECOS. Pruitt will keynote the event on Friday. …
Governor Mary Fallin has announced California based Mobile Medical Examination Inc. is expanding its operations to Oklahoma, creating another 400 new jobs in the state over the next five years. “As part of our expansion plan and to better serve our national footprint, we researched and spoke to a number of different state governments. I’m …
An attorney with Public Justice says even if an Oklahoma City federal judge tossed the group’s earthquake lawsuit against some Oklahoma energy companies, it doesn’t end the state’s responsibility. Paul Bland, Executive Director of the organization said the lawsuit filed for the Sierra Club shows more must be done by the state to control wastewater …
The $11.5 million purchase of a north Oklahoma City office building by Goendyke Oil and Gas Properties LP wasn’t what it appears to be. Turns out the purchase of the Northshore Office Plaza at 10,900 Hefner Pointe Drive was a Groendyke family investment, not one by the Groendyke Transportation Company based in Enid. Company spokesman …
The state legislature has become the battle ground between the “little guys” and the “big guys” in a fight over gross production tax rates in Oklahoma. Members of the newly-formed Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance rallied Wednesday morning at the capitol then lobbied legislators to increase the gross production tax on major energy companies. As former …
After two months of a slight surge in gross receipts to the State treasury, they fell below collections made in March of 2016, according to State Treasurer Ken Miller. But he said there was a bright spot and that was the collections from crude oil and natural gas gross production taxes. They were more than …
An environmental group that claimed in a study it had discovered a “major weakness” in the way Oklahoma protects drinking water from oil and gas wells had been told by state officials their study was based on out-dated data. Matt Skinner, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission explained to OK Energy Today commission officials …
Quite a fight over nuclear waste is brewing in Texas. As the Dallas Morning News reports, it’s about an application by a firm to store nuclear waste in west Texas. Waste Control Specialists is the company that wants to store the waste in Andrews County located about five hours drive west of Dallas. But it’s …
A rally is planned Wednesday at the State Capitol by a newly-formed group called the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance. It’s a group of small oil and natural gas producers who are calling on the legislature to restore the gross production tax from 2% to 7% on all oil and natural gas. And they are taking …