The Oklahoma Sierra Club will sponsor a Saturday Summit in Oklahoma City on Saturday featuring Solar Energy. Attorney and former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth, Pawnee Mayor Brad Sewell, Oklahoma City Councilman Ed Shadid and several solar executives will speak during the October 1 event to be held in the south conference room of …
State Attorney General Scott Pruitt and 27 other attorneys general await a decision of a D-C Circuit Court of Appeals following a Tuesday hearing into their challenge of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, one they call overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt was on hand for the hearing which could result in the …
Oklahoma ranks 44th worst when it comes to energy efficient state programs and efforts according to the 2016 State Energy Efficiency scorecard issued by The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. And in part, the state legislature can take the credit. States throughout the Mid-West generally did not fare well as Kansas is 48th, …
Gasoline prices have slipped to an Oklahoma average of $2.02 a gallon, a drop of eleven cents since the end of August according to the latest Fuel Gauge Report from AAA Oklahoma. Lawton has the lowest average with $1.89 a gallon while the highest is in Stillwater at $2.11 a gallon. “Inventory reports have been …
While Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy experienced the loss of two board members on Tuesday, the firm also announced final results on its offers to purchase for cash up to $800,000,000 of its outstanding notes. As of September 26, Chesapeake had received valid tenders totaling nearly $933.3 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes. Chesapeake accepted …
A jury in Plaquemine, Louisiana awarded $13. million in damages to four workers hurt in the 2013 blast that ripped through the Olefins Geismar plant owned by Williams Companies of Tulsa. The four were among 114 who were hurt n the blast that also killed two other workers. The Iberville Parish jury deliberated nearly five …
The 20th annual Oklahoma Oil and Gas Expo presented by the OERB and SOER will be held Oct. 6 on the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. “It’s our 20th anniversary which we’re very proud of, the longest running and largest oil and gas expo in the state,” declared Katy Spetter, one of the …
Shareholders have given approval to the merger of Great Plains Energy Incorporated and Westar Energy, Inc., both in Kansas. Westar is considered the largest electric utility in the state and has 700,000 customers and 2,400 employees. Great Plains is the parent company of KCP and L and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. “Our shareholders’ support for the transaction …
Now the U-N is getting involved in the oil pipeline fight in North Dakota as the U.N.s special envoy for the rights of indigenous people is calling for a halt to its construction. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz in Geneva, Switzerland wants work stopped on the Dakota Access pipeline, calling it a threat to drinking water supplies and …
The filing has been made and now it is a matter of a hearing date to be set in the matter of the State Corporation Commission filing a complaint against Oklahoma Natural Gas nearly 9 months after three people were injured in a January pipeline explosion in Oklahoma City. The filing of the complaint was …