At one point, the electric vehicle maker Canoo appeared close to financial failure. Then it agreed, with the help of Oklahoma, to build a manufacturing plant in Pryor along with moving its headquarters to Arkansas. Now the company has received its second large order, one for 9,300 vehicles from Kingbee, a national work-ready van …
Chevron to build New Mexico solar farm
Chevron joined Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp in launching a 133-acre solar farm in southeast New Mexico to provide electrical power to the Permian Basin. Chevron’s Hayhurst Solar Power Facility is in Eddy County, New Mexico, a site on state trust land managed by the New Mexico State Land Office. Work is underway to …
Judge blames Corps of Engineers for “liability mess” in North Dakota
A North Dakota U.S. District Court judge lowered the boom last week on the Army Corps of Engineers, saying it created a “mess” over the security costs at the Dakota Access Pipeline. U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor not only denied a motion from the federal government to limit the scope of the lawsuit filed …
La Nina to bring drought growth in Oklahoma this winter
It’s the kind of winter forecast Oklahoma farmers and ranchers don’t want to hear—the La Nina means an extreme winter but one with a continuing drought that has hit the state hard. The forecast is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which issued its U.S. Winter Outlook. “Drought conditions are now present across approximately …
Fight underway against nation’s largest proposed solar farm
One woman’s fight against a $1.5 billion solar farm in Indiana….the largest such solar project in the country. She raised millions to fight the 13,000 acre and she’s not even a farmer. Click here for The Guardian
Diesel fuel shortage grows across the U.S.
President Biden is staring another energy crisis in the face—a growing shortage of diesel fuel. Only a few weeks supply remains in storage and Waco economist Ray Perryman says the consequences could be grave reported the Odessa American. Click here for Odessa American
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** A tentative agreement brokered by President Joe Biden between railroad unions and freight train companies is at risk of going off the rails—once again raising the prospect of a potential national railway strike that the president has warned could further disrupt the nation’s economy. ** The federal government has outlined a strategy to try to protect …
Biden energy advisor calls for more oil production—but not in Permian Basin?
There has to be quite a contradiction at work in the Biden administration which on one hand is working to curtail oil and gas production in the Permian Basin while Presidential advisor Amos Hochstein is in the Middle East pushing for more investment in the industry. Which way is it? Produce more oil or …
Record coal-mining earnings reported by Tulsa’s Alliance Resources
As coal mining makes a resurgence throughout Europe because of the growing energy crisis, coal operators in the U.S. are doing well these days, including Tulsa-based Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. which reported record earnings in the just-finished quarter. Industry leaders might say it’s an indication that coal-mining in the U.S. is far from dead …
Big Aerospace announcement coming Monday
An announcement to be made Monday morning in western Oklahoma promises to be a “sensational addition” to the Oklahoma Air & Space Port. Craig Smith, executive director of the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority said Gov. Kevin Stitt along with the Director of Aerospace/ACES, Hopper Smith will be on hand for the 10 a.m. …