Mammoth Energy Services will hold its annual stockholders meeting on June 12 in Oklahoma City. The company’s filing of a proxy statement with the Securities Exchange Commission explained the meeting will be held at 14201 Caliber Drive Suite 300 starting at 9 a.m. Stockholders are asked to elect six directors to the board, approve …
More Tesla layoffs including two senior executives
Challenges keep mounting for Tesla. Thousands are being let go because of falling sales of electric vehicles across the U.S. and into Europe. The latest? Two Tesla senior executives are being let go along with hundreds more employees according to a report by The Information on Tuesday, citing the CEO’s email to senior managers. …
Governor signs Daylight Saving Time bill—no more changing clocks
Governor Kevin Stitt made it official—Oklahoma is the latest state to join others in adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time instead of changing clocks twice a year. Tahlequah Sen. Blake Cowboy Stephens authored SB1200 which was signed into law last Friday by the governor. The measure provides that the State of Oklahoma shall adopt permanent …
Energy briefs
** The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation, capping a project that cost billions more and took years longer than originally projected. Georgia Power Co. and fellow owners announced the milestone Monday for Plant Vogtle’s Unit 4, which joins an earlier new reactor southeast of Augusta in splitting atoms to make …
County assessor offers high-technology help to tornado damaged areas
Oklahoma County Assessor Larry Stein has sent some of his staff with its new technology to the tornado damaged areas of Oklahoma to help in the wake of the storms that killed four people on Saturday. “We are sending out our crews with our leading-edge technology to discover and catalogue all the damage in …
Electric rate hikes and Mitchell Talks Energy with Jerry Bohnen
A fight is definitely brewing as two of Oklahoma’s major utilities, Oklahoma Gas and Electric and Public Service Company of Oklahoma seek rate hikes. Both will go before the Corporation Commission this summer. Who better to discuss it then Scott Mitchell and Jerry Bohnen on their latest podcast of Mitchell Talks Energy With Jerry Bohnen. …
Possible ceasefire and inflation data send crude oil prices down by more than $1 a barrel
Crude oil prices took a more than $1 a barrel plunge during Monday’s trading as Israel ceasefire talks grew in Cairo and at the same time, U.S. inflation data deflated hopes for any imminent interest rate cuts. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, dropped $1.22 or 1.5% per barrel on the New York Mercantile …
OGE approaches 90% of power restoration after deadly tornadoes
Nearly 89 percent of Oklahoma Gas and Electric customers who lost electrical power during the weekend tornadoes that killed four persons and injured dozens of others had power restored as of mid-day Monday. OG&E reported that 5,400 customers were still without power while about 1,200 personnel worked to restore electricity to the cities and …
Tesla makes more layoffs while building a new $4 billion battery plant in Kansas
(Mike Wooldridge) Two years after Oklahoma lost the bidding war with Kansas for a $4 billion Panasonic EV battery plant, construction remains underway even though the company to be supplied with batteries is making layoffs nationally. Ground was broken in the summer of 2022 on the plant where eventually 4,000 employees will make electric vehicle …
OKC’s annual waste collection totaled 250,000 pounds
Six hundred and forty-five Oklahoma City residents dropped off 250,612 pounds of ammunition, medications, computers and tires during the City’s annual Special Collection event held on April 6 at the OKC Fairgrounds. Residents delivered 227,268 pounds of tires, 22,000 pounds of computers, 600 pounds of ammunition and set a new record of 744 pounds …





