Power Company Uses Helicopters to Monitor Transmission Lines

Black helicopters in Ohio! No, it’s not a wild claim from the tin-foil hat crowd that suspects a government helicopter is monitoring their every move. Helicopters are being used by FirstEnergy Corp. to carry out inspections of high-voltage transmissio…

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A Lost Vionsary—-What One Energy Expert Calls Aubrey McClendon

Some are calling the death of oilman Aubrey McClendon a great loss, not just for the energy industry but for Oklahoma City and the State.
“We’ve lost a visionary today,” said Dr. Steve Agee, dean of the Meinders School of Business at Oklahoma City Un…

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Power Company Uses Helicopters to Monitor Transmissino Lines

Black helicopters in Ohio! No, it’s not a wild claim from the tin-foil hat crowd that suspects a government helicopter is monitoring their every move. Helicopters are being used by FirstEnergy Corp. to carry out inspections of high-voltage transmissio…

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Reining in FEMA’s Administrative Costs

A bill co-sponsored by Oklahoma U.S. Senator James Lankford was signed into law by President Obama this week, reining in administrative costs for major disasters.
The Directing Dollars to Disaster Relief Act of 2015 was co-sponsored by Lankford along …

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Condolences from Industry Over McClendon’s Deeath

Reaction among Oklahoma’s oil and gas sector and business community was one of shock and sadness over the traffic death Wednesday morning of indicted oilman Aubrey McClendon.
Oilman T-Boone Pickens tweeted his statement.
“I’ve known Aubrey McClendon …

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Aubrey Mcclendon Killed in Fiery Traffic Crash One Day after Federal Indictment

A bizarre and stunning twist developed in the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment of Oklahoma oilman Aubrey McClendon when the 56-year old former Chesapeake Energy CEO was killed in a Wednesday morning traffic crash in Oklahoma City.
There is specula…

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Indicted Oilman Aubrey McClendon Killed in Traffic Crash

A day after Aubrey McClendon was indicted on bid-rigging charges, the 56-year old former President of Chesapeake Energy is dead.
Police in Oklahoma City confirm McClendon was killed in a fiery one-car crash around 9 a.m. at NE 122nd and Midwest Boulev…

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McClendon Should have Seen the Indictment Coming

The federal indictment this week against Oklahoma oilman Aubrey McClendon should not have been a surprise to him nor to his attorneys. Unless he felt that with his departure as the head of Chesapeake Energy, the Justice Department no longer was i…

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Ethanol Production Dips Nationally

Another drop in ethanol production in the U.S. was reported last week. The production averaged 987,000 barrels a day or 41.45 million gallons daily. But that is a decline of 7,000 barrels a day from the previous week, according to the Energy Info…

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Oklahoma’s Wind Generation up to 18 Percent of State’s Electricity

The federal government says Iowa became the first state in 2015 to provide more than 30 percent of its electricity generation from wind. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said Iowa’s wind farms generated more than 31 percent of all gener…

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