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How one ESG supporter defends the climate change effort
ESG has certainly stirred up legislators in Oklahoma and Texas and other oil and gas producing states. They responded with laws and bills attacking investment firms that discriminate in their financial support against the oil and gas industry. One defender of the ESG movement is Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, …
Scientists blame natural gas production for southern Colorado earthquakes
Recent earthquakes in southern Colorado are being blamed on wastewater injection wells—just like those in Oklahoma in years past and in the Permian Basin of West Texas in the past several months. The southern Colorado quakes are near the city of Trinidad, an area known as the Raton Basin. Scientists blame nearby natural gas …
New Mexico legislators fight storage of nuclear waste near Carlsbad
New Mexico legislators apparently are intent on blocking the storage of radioactive waste at a site near Carlsbad. A House Judiciary Committee voted this week in support of a bill to prohibit the storage of the high-level radioactive waste in the state without New Mexico’s consent according to the New Mexico Political Report. The …
Short energy reads
** A new nuclear reactor in the US started up last week — the country’s first in nearly 7 years. Georgia Power expects Vogtle Unit 3 to be fully in service in May or June of this year. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesperson Scott Burnell told CNBC that this marked the first nuclear reactor to achieve initial criticality …
Edmond Representative hopes to end shortage of commercial truck drivers
A bill, whose author contends will steer more commercial truck drivers to Oklahoma and end a shortage of drivers, won State House Approval this week. House Bill 2750, authored by Rep. Nicole Miller, R-Edmond, would make it earlier for more Oklahomans to receiver their commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) by addressing inefficiencies in the current …
While Canada celebrates VW plant, OKC Democrat blames Republicans for decision
This week’s decision by German automaker Volkswagen to build an EV battery plant in Canada rather than in Oklahoma came after the state put together a nearly $700 million incentive package. It apparently wasn’t enough and VW picked St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Canadian leaders hailed it as a major vote of confidence in their …
Biden’s Democratic supporters in disbelief over his Alaska oil drilling project for ConocoPhillilps
Environmentalists can’t believe President Biden did what he did this week in approving more oil drilling on federal land in Alaska. They say he violated his 2020 campaign pledge to ban all new oil drilling on federal land by granting permission to ConocoPhillilps to carry out the $8 billion ConocoPhillips Willow oil project, which is expected …
Enviros wanted more restrictions on Keystone pipeline following Kansas leak
A slap on the wrist. It’s what environmentalists are calling a federal order issued last week for TC Energy to lower the pressure in part of its Keystone Pipeline following the December oil spill in rural northern Kansas. The order could affect the flow of oil to the Cushing Hub in northern Oklahoma. The Department …
Paloma Operating is busy in the STACK play
Houston’s Paloma Operating Company had a recent flurry of drilling activity in Oklahoma’s STACK play including two single-pad wells with combined production of more than 900 barrels of oil a day. The two wells, located about 4 miles northwest of the city of Kingfisher at 31 17N 7W in Kingfisher County were completed in …
Residents of small south Texas town complain of crude oil leak
An oil leak that started in late January but not reported to the Environmental Protection Agency until late February has stirred anger among the residents of the small South Texas town of Dayton, just east of Houston. They recently voiced their disappointment at a meeting with officials of AmCorCo Corporation, telling stories of a …