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Feds Give Millions to Retrain Out-of-Work Coal Miners in Montana
The state of Montana has received nearly $5 million from the federal government for the retraining of hundreds of coal workers losing their jobs in the shutdown of the coal-fired Colstrip power plant. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock’s office said $2 million will be immediately available to begin workforce retraining even after President Trump declared this …
Colorado Hunting Ranch Sues Over Pipeline Spill
Canada’s Encana Energy has been sued by a Colorado big-game hunting ranch over a 2016 pipeline leak. The Bishop Ranch LLC from Grand Junction filed suit in Rio Blanco County maintain the pipeline spill not only contaminated its property but ruined a planned $5 million sale. The lawsuit, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, …
ETP Sells Part of Controversial Rover Natural Gas Pipeline for $1.5 billion
Faced with spill problems in construction, Energy Transfer Partners in Dallas is selling part of its controversial Rover Pipeline, the 700 mile line stretching across the U.S. ETP is selling 49.9% to Blackstone Energy Partners and Blackstone Capital partners for $1.57 billion in ETP’s HoldCo. HoldCo. owns 65% interest in the Rover pipeline and upon …
Tribe Loses Fight Against Osage County Wind Farm Regulations
The Osage Tribe apparently isn’t giving up in its fight against wind farms in Osage County, even after losing a court case this week in Pawhuska. It was there a judge denied the Osage Nation challenge to the rules created by Osage county that will allow further development of wind farms. Osage County District Judge …
Corporation Commission Starts Probe of Edmond Earthquake Surge
The surge of earthquakes in the Edmond area on Wednesday and Thursday, including a 4.2 magnitude quake that caused a power outage is being investigated by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The strongest of the quakes caused some minor damage and resulted in a power outage affecting two electrical substations. It was felt in Oklahoma City …
Profits Reported by Kirby Corporation and Its Oklahoma Operations
Weeks after signing a $710 million deal to buy another company, Houston, Texas-based Kirby Corporation announced second quarter net earnings of nearly $26 million. Kirby, the firm that acquired United Holdings and United Engines in Oklahoma six years ago announced in June its acquisition of Stewart and Stevenson LLC, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Parman …
Williams Cos. Buys Amish Farm Where Pipeline Protesters Gathered in Pennsylvania
Tulsa-based Williams Companies isn’t saying much about it. But the company has just bought a 107-acre farm in Pennsylvania that served as the base of operations for opponents to the company’s Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project. The Amish farm is near the town of Conestoga in Lancaster County and was a protest encampment against the $3 …
Red Faces at BLM Over Mishandling of Criminal Evidence
The Bureau of Land Management has certainly had its problems as it enforced oil and gas rules and regulations in Oklahoma’s Osage County. Now comes the story of how BLM senior law enforcement officials in Utah gave away ancient stones as a reward to a private contractor. The moqui marbles, which consist of compacted sandstone …
$2 million Campaign Fund Built by Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb
Days after Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb discussed energy and his campaign for Governor with OK Energy Today, it’s been reported his campaign fund totals nearly $2 million. The Tulsa World reports Lamb has so much money, he has far more than any of the 11 other candidates. And the primaries are more than 11 months …
EPA Panel Clears Pruitt in Complaint Filed by Sierra Club
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt might be smiling these days after his own EPA cleared him following a complaint filed by one environmental group. Pruitt gets the green light in an investigation of whether he violated the Agency’s science integrity policy for his comments on climate change. It’s reported a panel of senior agency …