Oklahoma Treasurer Randy McDaniel says in spite of lower oil and gas prices, the state’s latest gross receipts for February showed still more growth in the state’s economy. And the growth was reflected for the 23rd consecutive month. Gross production taxes on oil and natural gas generated $105.7 million in February or $38.9 million more …
Oklahoma Corporation Commission meets Tuesday morning to consider several signing orders. Windstream Nuvox Oklahoma, Inc. is seeking funding from the Oklahoma Universal Fund for for the Memorial Hospital in Guymon and the Stroud Regional Hospital. CKEnergy Electric Cooperative, Inc. continues its push to stop Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company from serving of building electric facilities …
An Oklahoma City federal judge has ruled against four Blackwell residents who attempted to sue the Blackwell Zinc Smelter owner after the smelter company already settled a class-action pollution lawsuit years ago. U.S. District Judge Charles b. Goodwin essentially ruled that the individuals were too late in their claims. He ruled against Bradley Snow …
While Venezuelan President Maduro deals with riots by his starving people and several days of electrical blackouts, he has been told by the World Bank to pay nearly $9 billion to ConocoPhillips. The Bank’s ruling on Friday said Venezuela had to pay ConocoPhillips $8.7 billion for the governments expropriation of the company’s investments in the …
It wasn’t out of the ordinary for New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to draw an overflow crowd when she during the weekend in Austin, Texas. After all, Austin is the city that is proud of its liberalism and sells tee shirts “Keep Austin Weird.” While Oklahoma congressman Markwayne Mullin, an avowed Republican from eastern …
The Oklahoma Chapter of the Sierra Club is vowing to fight again next legislative session to get some Solar Energy bills passed in the House and Senate. Leaders were disappointed after several solar bills died in this year’s legislative session. “The Lobby group made a big push to get Solar Energy Bills passed by calling, …
A weather research team based at the University of Oklahoma has received a $2.3 million grant from the federal government to continue studies into weather and climate extremes and their impact on south central U.S. communities. The grant was given to the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program which is a multi-institutional stakeholder driven …
We mistakenly identified Cactus Drilling for the recent fourth quarter and 2018 financial reports from Cactus Inc., a public original equipment manufacturer for Cactus Drilling LLC. Cactus Wellhead is a privately-owned drilling contractor based out of Oklahoma City and with headquarters in Houston, Texas and is often confused as being Cactus Drilling. So it …
Oklahoma has been through this. So has Texas. Kansas has too. The question is whether a 4.5 magnitude earthquake was caused in part by a wastewater disposal well. But this question is about an earthquake near the Utah-Colorado border. It happened several days ago and occurred near a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation operation in western …
Oklahoma geologist and water specialist Bob Jackman thinks the state Board of Agriculture is missing some regulations in stemming the growth of poultry farms in eastern Oklahoma. He made clear his feelings in a letter to the editor: Ag board missing more regulations to stem chicken problem The invasion of 200 industrial megachicken barns …