High school students and officials in Broken Arrow have started working together in an environmental conservation project involving a floating wetland. As the Tulsa World recently reported, the new joint conservation partnership focuses on a detention pond across from the Broken Arrow High School. Eventually, students and city workers will use the project to target …
An economist is predicting that Oklahoma will soon jump from number five in oil production to third in the U.S. It’s the prediction of Mark Snead, president and economist of RegionTrack who spoke recently at the Enid Regional Development Alliance’s quarterly luncheon, according to the Enid News. “We are looking for record production level, in …
Senator Jim Inhofe apparently is showing Democrats in the Senate ‘Two Can Play This Game’ by putting an indefinite hold on Democratic FERC nominee Richard Glick. It’s in response to the actions of Democrats to approve some of President Trumps EPA picks. As a result of the hold on Glick, Inhofe’s move could result in …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality is spreading the word that grants up to $1,000 are available to promote environmental learning and education among the young. A total of $10,000 in grants will be awarded in early 2018 to the winning applicants. They are sponsored by the Oklahoma Environmental Quality Education Committee and are available …
Concerns over whether wastewater disposal wells will cause earthquakes prompted officials in Lawrence, Kansas to recently call on the state corporation commission to change its rules. The governments of Douglas County and Lawrence want changes to the state regulations after an energy company proposed to pump wastewater into wells in rural Eudora, according to a …
Houston-based Linn Energy Inc. likes to say it focuses its national drilling effort in the SCOOP and STACK in western Oklahoma and recently made its point with the $285 million sale of assets in the Williston Basin. The company sold its interest on Oct. 23 in nearly 20,000 net acres in North Dakota, South Dakota …
In something of a surprise move, the Oklahoma Senate on Thursday approved a resolution urging the State House to raise gross production taxes on oil and gas wells as a way to resolve the state’s budget crisis. It drew an immediate rebuke from oil and gas groups. “The continued erosion of tax policy that has …
Someone hacked into the computer system at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission this week leaving most computer services offline as of Thursday. The Commission was quick to indicate there was no compromise of sensitive data. “We detected an attack and have engaged the State CyberCommand and OMES staff to protect and restart the systems,” OMES spokeswoman …
A consortium of energy consumers in the state is preparing to go before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to fight a $150 million rate hike by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers, a group of large energy users has filed testimony in response to PSO’s 28% base rate hike request. Tom Schroedter, executive …
Oklahoma isn’t the only place where scientists are linking wastewater disposal wells to earthquakes. Researchers at the University of Colorado’s Department of Geological Sciences are making the same new claim of recent earthquakes in what is called the Raton Basin located in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. They contend the deep underground wells have …