“We’ve got to clean up Bokoshe. We’ve got to stop this cancer rate. “ For six years, freelance documentary photographer Carlan Tapp has been photographing the coal ash dump around the southeastern Oklahoma town of Bokoshe…the town OK Energy Today has reported on over the past few years. Now Tapp is out with a …
Oklahoma’s latest jobless figures show the oil and gas industry is still bleeding badly in the world downturn, dropping 400 more jobs from April to May. Lynn Gray, Director of Economic Research and Analysis for the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says the state’s energy sector has lost 19,200 jobs since its employment peaked in November …
One of the lawsuits filed by Williams Cos. against Energy Transfer Equity in their muddy merger battle did not go to trial on Monday in Delaware as scheduled. Instead, the two firms agreed to a dismal and ETE of Dallas said it would pay $170,000 to cover court fees of Williams. Williams sued ETE in …
The state of Oklahoma is one of the latest to join a series of lawsuits against Volkswagen, accusing the car maker of fraud in its Clean Diesel technology. The state is asking for nearly $8 million covering 3,855 registered VW vehicles in the state. Oklahoma is at least the seventh state to file a civil …
The old State Highway 19 bridge over the Washita River near Lindsay will be blown up Tuesday by the State Transportation Department. It’s being replaced and crews will detonate controlled charges on the center span of the bridge at 8 a.m. The bridge was damaged in heavy flooding more than a year ago. If things …
The nation’s oil and gas rig count grew by 10 over the past week as oil prices remained steady around the $50 a barrel mark. Oklahoma’s count remained steady at 58 compared to last week, according to figures released by Baker Hughes Company of Houston, Texas. The nation’s count grew to 424, …
Opponents of a proposed pipeline from Cushing to Longview, Texas plan to voice their concerns at a Monday afternoon meeting of the Norman Floodplain Permit Committee. The developer is the same company responsible for the Santa Barbara, California pipeline spill that led to grand jury indictments on 46 criminal counts. It is opposition to the …
Spreading the word about Oklahoma’s earthquakes and what might be causing them. it’s what Secretary of Energy and Environment Michael Teague is doing and recently spoke in Ardmore. “That’s not natural,” said Teague in an address at the Southern Oklahoma Leaders Luncheon in the Ardmore Convention center. He was referring to the fact that there …
A judge in Billings, Montana is allowing environmentalist to proceed with a lawsuit against operators of a coal-fired power plant that continues leaking contaminated water from storage ponds. District Judge Robert Deschamps made the ruling after learning that contaminated water was still leaking form the ponds of the Colstrip Power Plant four years after an …
The screeching of brakes you heard at the State Capitol are coming from the office of the governor in a flap over the high salary to be paid to a former energy regulator. If Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has anything to say about it, the $250,000 salary the State Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust wants to pay …