Maybe this story should be under the “You won’t believe this” category. In the state of New Jersey, some legislators are pushing for a “rain” tax and it will be based on the amount of concrete at a home or business. New Jersey is already one of the highest-taxed states in the nation and now …
OBU will be hosting the Oklahoma Information Security Tour Wednesday, Feb. 13, on the University’s Shawnee campus. The event is hosted by OneNet along with Alias Forensics. Alias Forensics held a similar event, a CyberSecurity conference, on the OBU campus in October 2017. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. The …
The Green New Deal offered by Democrats last week continues drawing fiery responses from the energy industry. The group Texans for Natural Gas issued a statement calling it the “latest attempt from radical environmentalists to halt oil and gas production with unsubstantiated claims and scare tactics.” “The Green New Deal is a bad deal for …
Oklahoma City-based Mammoth Energy Service Inc. has filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showing an amendment to a previous filing concerning shares and values. The filing on Monday amended the original filing madeFeb. 8 and was a Form SC 13G/A which applied to the 21,78,893 shared voting power.
The City of Enid is still attempting to negotiate with landowners as it plans to build a 70-mile water line from Kaw Lake to a treatment facility in Enid. The City Commission recently received an update on the project. The negotiations are for 225 parcels of land in Garfield, Noble, Osage and Kay counties. About …
Oklahoma City-based Enable Midstream Partners, LP announced a quarterly cash distribution of $0.318 per share. The Board of Directors declared the distribution on all outstanding common units for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2018. It is the amount as distributed for the third quarter of 2018. The distribution will be paid Feb. 26, 2019 …
The number of oil and gas rigs across the U.S. increased in the past week by 4 to reach a total of 1,049 while in Oklahoma, the rig count dropped by 2 to 120. Baker Hughes reported the number of oil rigs in the past week grew by 7 to reach 854 while the …
The organization known for rescuing more than 400,000 stranded motorists each year, has a new and unique way to help Oklahomans. AAA Oklahoma celebrated the opening of its first Car Care, Insurance and Travel Center in the state. AAA leaders from throughout the country joined local dignitaries for the official ribbon-cutting at the AAA’s …
“Let’s not be a bad landowner.” Sen. James Lankford Feb. 7, 2019. Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford says all he was attempting to do was bring some “common sense” to the way the federal government spends money on making land purchases. His amendment to the Land Water Conservation Fund act was killed Thursday in a …
The shutdown of the Keystone pipeline carrying oil out of Canada to Cushing, Oklahoma as well as another line in Missouri was blamed for a large drop in Canadian crude oil prices. Prices weakened over the shutdown of TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Cushing which carries 590,000 barrels of oil a day. …