The U.S. Interior Department announced a settlement this week with Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy over the cancellation of 15 leases the company had to drill for oil and gas on Montana land considered sacred by the Blackfeet Tribe. The company’s leases covered parts of the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest …
Tinker Air Force Base just became home as another maintenance center, this one for some of the huge Global Hawk drones that fly around the world. Partnering with Rolls-Royce, Tinker formally dedicated its operation to carry out the maintenance and overhaul work of the F137 engines that power the drones up to 60,000 feet. The …
A recently new report from the firm FluksAqua claimed Oklahoma is among the top 8 states that had the highest water contamination problems reported in 2015. Oklahoma experienced health-based water system violations that affected 19.1% of the state’s population including 69 instances of coliform contamination and 640 instances of disinfection byproducts, according to the report. …
What a big change in the weather is coming to Oklahoma. Record high temperatures are expected on Wednesday and Thursday before a cold front hits the state. Anyone working high atop an oil or gas rig will know it. So will those daring maintenance crews who stand atop wind towers across the state. Here’s how …
Dozens of Oklahomans supporting the Native American protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota joined others nationwide on Tuesday in staging their own protests. Oklahoma City protesters, fewer than 100, gathered at the SkyDance Bridge over Interstate 40. While nearly most of the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile pipeline is complete, the Texas developer lacks only …
The American Automobile Association is out with its annual Thanksgiving traffic prediction that 48.7 million Americans will be going somewhere for the holiday. That includes about 615,000 Oklahomans who will travel 50 miles or more from home. The national prediction is a million more travelers or an increase of 1.9 percent over the 2015 travels. …
Houston-based ConocoPhillips says it’s selling its assets in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. A spokeswoman for the company confirmed it will sell assets in the San Juan Basin over the coming two years. ConocoPhillips has operated in the Basin for more than half a century and is considered to be the largest operator in …
Oklahoma interstate motorists will begin to see new signage soon as part of the state’s effort to improve alternative fueling infrastructure, according to a press release issued Monday by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. On November 6, OK Energy Today reported the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration is designating 48 electric vehicle charging …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe’s pointing to yet another report that indicates hydraulic fracturing has not harmed drinking water resources in a Wyoming town. The report from the Wyoming Department of Environmental quality reviewed domestic water waters in Pavillion, Wyoming. “The report puts to rest the faulty work of the EPA that attempted to link …
Donald Trump has yet to take office and already environmentalists are using their fear of his administration to raise money in a fight against his policies. They’re predicting environmental disasters and calling him a fascist. Most of the name-calling is coming from the Sierra Club such as the email notice for a weekend rally held …