The City of Lawton is moving ahead with an energy savings plan dating back to the fall of 2015. As the Lawton Constitution reports, the city council considered the Op Terra ES plan to analyze city operations to find additional energy savings. The plan will focus on technology, lighting, control and mechanical projects. Outdated chillers …
The environmentalists who protested and demonstrated against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota left enough trash behind that they created their own environmental problem. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had to hired a Florida-based company to remove the trash and other debris left behind when the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe finally abandoned the …
Southwestern Oklahoma will get improved fiber optics under a loan announced this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Southern Plains Cable LLC. The company is receiving a $15.3 million loan to build a fiber-optic broadband network serving a 55-square mile area that includes the communities of Anadarko, Verden and Chickasha. Southern Plains Cable …
The New Mexico legislature is considering a bill to restrict drones from flying within 500 feet of power plants and refineries. The measure is to go before the Senate Public Affairs Committee this week. Senator Greg Baca’s bill would ban drones from flying with 500 feet if critical-infrastructure facilities as well as interfering with firefighters …
Scott Pruitt might have some explaining to do. During his U.S. Senate Committee confirmation hearing, he testified he used only his official email address and government issued phone to conduct official business. But that’s not what is indicated in the emails released last week in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Media and …
The Trump administration’s plans to shift $54 billion from federal agencies to the Pentagon has disappointed environmentalists. Alex Taurel, deputy legislative director at the League of Conservation Voters said it will “Make America Sick Again,” using a play on Trump’s campaign slogan. She told The Hill the president’s spending plan would put “polluters first over …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission came out with new limits on Arbuckle disposal wells on Friday in another move to limit the rate of earthquakes linked to the wells and lower future risks. “The data from the Oklahoma Geological Survey shows the earthquake rate has been dropping since we issued various directives reducing the then-current …
The air of optimism expressed by the leadership at Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy might have something to do with the property unloaded by the company in the past year. Chesapeake reported fourth quarter losses of $741 million compared to the $2.23 billion a year earlier. But CEO Doug Lawler says the company has gone from …
The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board announced the addition of two new board members. David S. Ferris of Devon Energy and David Sikes of Jeroco Inc. were named to the board. Ferris is the Development Manager of the Anadarko Basin Business Unit for Devon Energy Inc. He leads the integrated planning team in the strategic planning, …
Those Native American tribes and the Sierra Club threatening to create a possible encampment protesting construction of a Cushing to Memphis oil pipeline will have a new possible consideration courtesy of the Oklahoma legislature. The encampment would be similar to the one in North Dakota where protesters have fought construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. …