The Biden administration won’t like this but its big EV push is being heavily criticized by none other than the CEO of car-maker Stellantis. CEO Carlos Tavares recently spoke at the Freedom of Mobility Forum where he cast heavy doubts about the future of the EV industry according to The Auto Wire. Click here …
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and his state Commerce Department leaders no doubt have moved on after losing a multi-billion dollar battery plant last month they hoped to secure from Volkswagen. Over the weekend, VW and Canada, the car maker’s choice for the site of the nearly $15 billion gigafactory, sealed the deal. Europe’s largest …
The head of a Tulsa based energy solutions company suggests Oklahoma can take great strides in solving its thousands of abandoned and unplugged oil and gas wells by taking advantage of the emerging voluntary carbon market. Writing in the Sunday Oklahoman’s Viewpoints section, Staci Taruscio, CEO of Rebellion Energy Solutions, called on the state …
Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is urging the US Supreme Court to take up a climate-related lawsuit by Colorado governments against fossil fuel companies Suncor and ExxonMobil. Writing in Bloomberg Law, North stated that if the high court doesn’t, the result could be a string of separate state court rulings that result in chaos. …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has launched a campaign to attract private firms interested in helping with the state’s federally-funded well plugging program. In a recent announcement, the Commission explained that the state issued a “new solicitation” for those interested in becoming part of the program under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In the …
Theoretically, if two of Oklahoma’s three Corporation Commissioners hold even an informal gathering where issues at hand are discussed, it is considered an illegal meeting. Such is the case in point raised last week during the contentious public discussion prior to the commission’s 2-1 vote in favor of approving nearly $6.6 billion in fuel …
The formal determination of the cause of the Keystone Pipeline leak that flooded 500,000 gallons of crude oil into a Kansas creek last December was announced Friday by operator TC Energy. “The primary cause of the rupture was a progressive fatigue crack that originated at a girth weld connecting a manufactured elbow fitting to …
Public Service Company of Oklahoma boasted on Earth Day over the weekend that its $2.4 billion renewable energy plan involving the acquisition of three solar farms and three more wind-farm operations will reduce customers bills. In taking note of Earth Day, the utility said its proposed Fuel-Free Power Plan will more than double its …
Depending on how you look at it, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s “handling” or “mishandling” of the 2021 Winter Storm Uri costs and how they are being passed along to consumers, is similar to how Texas authorities took care of the situation. Vows to get to the bottom of things were at best, not kept. …
The tornadoes and severe weather that hit central Oklahoma in the past week left so much extensive damage that Oklahoma Gas & Electric increased its number of crews to 2,800 to help restore power. By Friday night, about 60% of customer power had been restored from a peak of 23,000 that lost power Wednesday …