Freshman Rep. John Michael Montgomery has a vision—–doing something to get Oklahoma’s state revenue off what he considers to be volatile sources—income taxes and gross production taxes. The Lawton Republican is promoting his “Vision 2050”, a bill he filed to be considered in this session of the legislature. House Bill 1400, as he explained in …
Thanks to a coal-cleaning experiment in a southeast Oklahoma coal-fired power plant, New York-based Clean Coal Technologies is taking the project to Wyoming where it will be carried out in a larger base. As the Oklahoman reported Tuesday, the company is expanding its efforts to clean coal before it’s burned. And the project at the …
Both former Texas Governor Rick Perry and Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke won recommendations of approval from a Senate Committee on Tuesday…Perry to be Energy Secretary and Zinke to be Secretary of the Interior. The votes from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee chaired by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) were along party lines. Zinke’s nomination …
Could Oklahoma become the site of a Dakota Access style oil pipeline protest? it’s what some Native American activists and environmentalists suggested this week as they voiced opposition to the $900 million Diamond pipeline. The line will carry oil from Cushing to Memphis, Tennessee. “We are forming a coalition. We are organized and we …
The Native American protesters and environmentalists who announced this week plans to block and fight the proposed $900 million Diamond pipeline are being accused of misleading the public and distorting the facts. “Let’s be clear what they are,” said Chad Warmington, President of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association in a Tuesday morning interview on …
Magellan Midstream Partners of Tulsa is reporting the break of one of its pipelines in northern Iowa is far less than originally feared. The company says the amount of spilled diesel fuel was closer to 47,000 gallons rather than the 139,000 initially reported last week, according to the Mason City Globe Gazette. The rupture …
Another filing has been made in the Oklahoma Supreme Court in the consumer fight to force a $16 billion refund from ATT over a 1989 bribed vote by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Oklahomans Against Bribery made the filing stating that the bribery and misconduct by attorneys and executives for Southwestern Bell, before it was taken …
In just about two weeks, it will be a year since the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit accusing three Oklahoma energy companies of causing earthquakes in the state. With the help of the Washington, D-C based group Public Justice, the Sierra Club accused New Dominion, Chesapeake Operating and Devon Energy Production Company of causing the …
In the nearly eleven months since a class-action bid-rigging lawsuit was filed against Chesapeake Energy and SandRidge Energy, oilman Tom Ward and others, the number of plaintiffs has grown from one to 19. A check of the lawsuit originally filed by Brian Thieme, a Colorado resident who is also a land-owner in northwest Oklahoma, showed …
While President Trump and some of his cabinet nominees have vowed to dismantle some of the environmental policies of former President Barack Obama, environmental groups have been busy building their bank accounts to do battle with the White House. OK Energy Today has reported on the efforts of the national Sierra Club to raise more …