Environmentalists are cheering about it. Others say it will hurt the region’s economy. They are reacting to the vote taken Monday by the owners of the Navajo Generating Station to close the largest coal plant west of the Mississippi River. In two years, the coal plant in northern Arizona will be shut down by The …
Disappointed but not surprised. It’s the reaction of an attorney for the Native American tribes and environmentalists fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline after a Federal judge denied their request for a restraining order. The ruling on Monday means Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners will be allowed to continue drilling to finish the $3.8 billion project. The …
Colorado and the county of Boulder could find itself in a court fight over a moratorium on oil and gas drilling. State Attorney General Cynthia Coffman last week demanded that Boulder drop its moratorium but the county refused to meet the deadline of Friday. It opens the door for the Republican Attorney General to move …
An unidentified Oklahoma state government agency is under investigation over a ransom-ware attack that locked its computers last year and agency leaders decided to pay the ransom. Word of the incident was revealed last week during a hearing of the House government Modernization Committee. Mark Gower, director of the Information technology Cyber Command testified during …
Congressman Markwayne Mullin and others on a subcommittee of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee will explore those self-driving cars in a hearing today on capitol hill. He is a member of the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. The hearing entitled “Self-Driving Cars: Road to Deployment will begin at 9:15 a.m. Oklahoma …
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. thinks the U.S. Supreme Court should have a say in a $439 million judgment that was issued against the company last fall in a dispute over a bond issuance. It was a fight in part that grew out of debt run up by the late Aubrey McClendon when he …
Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy announced Monday it entered into a new $600 million reserve based credit facility with a $425 million borrowing base. The move was effective Feb. 10, 2017. The announcement indicated that the refinancing amended the terms of the previous credit facility and provides the company with an increased principal commitment to $600 …
Plans by a firm to permanently store uranium contaminated sludge at the former Sequoyah Fuels facility near Gore in eastern Oklahoma are on temporary hold after the State and the Cherokee Nation went to federal court to win a temporary restraining order. The State and the Tribe fear possible contamination of the nearby Arkansas and …
Rig counts remained the same in Oklahoma in the past week while nationwide, they grew by 12 to reach 741, according to figures from the Baker Hughes Company in Houston, Texas. Of course, the count is only from Baker Hughes and does not include states where it does not operate such as Kansas. The Kansas …
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin’s submitted $1.3 billion in transportation projects to the Trump administration as part of the new President’s plan to improve nationwide infrastructure. She proposed seven so-called “shove-ready” projects in Oklahoma. They are among 428 projects submitted from 49 states and territories to the White House National Trade Council. The submissions were made …