Media mogul Ted Turner has sold his 43,000 acre Bluestem Ranch in Osage County to the Osage Nation. It was a reported $74 million-purchase by the tribe, making the tribe one of the biggest landowners in the county. Turner, the man behind CNN and Turner Broadcasting bought the ranch in 2001 and raised buffalo. The …
The U.S. Geological Survey now says Western Colorado has far, far more natural gas than previously thought…maybe 40 times more. It’s what government and industry experts recently said in Denver, explain the Mancos Shale formation in the state’s Piceance Basin holds an estimated 66.3 trillion cubic feet of gas. That’s a huge increase from …
Cut the tax credits to the Oklahoma coal-mining industry and you cut money from small communities in the state. It’s the message from not only coal industry officials but from Mary Ann Pritchard, director of the Oklahoma Mining Department. “People don’t realize the coal industry affects small communities,” she said recently in an interview with …
At least one electric cooperative serving some Midwestern states makes it clear, it doesn’t think the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial Cean Power Plan is the way to go. And it’s almost as thought a government “catch 22” forced it to use coal to generate electricity. It’s what Michael McInness, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission …
The State Department of Environmental Quality is investigating Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College for allegedly dumping oil into a storm drain that feeds the Tar Creek in Miami. Skylar McElhaney, a spokeswoman at the DEQ indicated two complaints were received this month, alleging the college siphoned oil from a vehicle barn and used a hose to …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe used a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Thursday to again condemn the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, the one put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court. “The stakes are high when it comes to the Power Plan,” said the Senator in his opening comment as Chairman …
“I did not feel the support from the Governor’s office.” Bob Cooper Coal miners and leaders of Oklahoma’s coal mining industry make it clear—-they are not happy with Gov. Mary Fallin and her action this week signing Senate Bill 1614 into effect. The new law cuts the coal mining industry’s $3.8 million annual …
Oklahoma Congressman Steve Russell’s bill to force federal agencies to share software, a move he says could save more than $4 billion a year, won unanimous approval this week in the U.S. House. The Making Electronic Government Accountable by Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016 or H.R. 4904 passed on a voice vote. He called …
The city of Tulsa broke ground this week on a second CNG refueling station for its city fleet of CNG powered vehicles and for public use. The site is located in East Tulsa on East 33rd street near the I-44/Broken Arrow Expressway Interchange. The new refueling site has a $2 million price tag on it …
Production has been reduced by CVR Refining at its refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas because the temporary shutdown of the Magellan Midstream Partners 8-inch refined petroleum products pipeline. The line transports up to 30,000 barrels a day of refined products from the refinery to Kansas City, Kansas and is one of three pipelines that support the …