Some of the recent utility rate hikes made by Oklahoma utilities pale in comparison to the one proposed by El Paso Electric in southwest Texas. It wants a $93 million rate hike that would skyrocket residential rates by an average of $22.39 a month, meaning additional costs of hundreds of dollars a year. …
Energy briefs
** In a huge win for public health and the environment, a U.S. District Judge has ordered Chemours Chemical Company to immediately suspend the discharge of dangerous “forever chemicals” into the Ohio River from its facility near Parkersburg, West Virginia. ** California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies …
New sanctions on Iranian oil sent crude prices up 1% on Tuesday
New U.S. sanctions against Iran’s oil revenue stream resulted in a 1% gain for crude oil prices on Tuesday. As reported by Reuters, the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned a network of shipping companies and vessels led by an Iraqi-Kittitian businessman for smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil. The move resulted in …
New law likely means flood of utility rate hike requests in Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s Corporation Commissioners are bracing for an anticipated flood of new rate requests thanks to a new law that utilities lobbied to get, but is one that Commissioners opposed and now believe it could be unconstitutional. The bill that one attorney charged stripped Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners of their authority in how quickly they handled …
Improved weather systems installed at some Oklahoma airports
The Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics has been busy upgrading weather systems at some of Oklahoma’s airports. Seven airports recently received the Automated Weather Observation Systems with funding from the Aerospace and Aeronautics Department. The seven are Ada, Alva, Claremore, Fairview, Grove,South Grand Lake and Sallisaw. The upgrades are part of a …
Fort Sill to be blacked out for electrical power exercise
An approaching “exercise” at Fort Sill means there will be a blackout of electrical power on the mililtary post in southern Oklahoma. The Army plans to hold the “Black Start” exercise on September 10 and for a six hour period, there won’t be electrical power as the post assesses its emergency response capabilities. …
DEQ board to consider rules changes
From lead paint rules changes to the code that must be met by employees, the Oklahoma Environmental Quality Board meets in a week in Stillwater. The meeting will be held on the campus of Oklahoma State University and begin at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 9. Below is the agenda. REGULAR MEETING AGENDA …
Oil and Gas leader educates students about the real impact of oil and gas
Classroom teachers who tell their students that the oil and gas industry is bad and harmful got a wakeup call recently from the President of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association. Writing in the Santa Fe New Mexican, Missi Currier, president and CEO of the Association explained there are some aspects that …
Pueblo leaders defy Colorado’s green energy push—fight to keep coal fired power plant
County leaders around Pueblo, Colorado want to keep their Xcel Energy coal-fired power station. Regardless of how the rest of the state might be so heavily in support of Green Energy, the Pueblo County Commission has gone to the state’s Public Utilities Commission explaining it will seek relief from President Trump and Energy …
Scientists—Al Gore was wrong
Al Gore, the former vice president turned climate activist who reportedly made $200,000 per speech about his warnings, has become the target of more criticism over his outrageous predictions made years ago. Fifteen years after he warned in his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that the North Polar ice cap was falling off …
