Oklahoma City legislator Richard Morrissette not only is sponsoring a public forum to be held at the State Capitol on wastewater and the injection wells thought to be causing Oklahoma’s earthquakes, he wants an interim legislative study on the issue. He filed the request last week on the day of the deadline for such requests. …
A state legislator who is running for an Oklahoma Corporation Commission seat and the Ponca Nation Council will hold an Oil and Gas Industry Forum Tuesday exploring a way to reduce wastewater injection and the number of earthquakes in the state. The forum will be held at the State Capitol and focus on …
Some U.S. Senators plan to put the Environmental Protection Agency in the spotlight again Tuesday by holding a subcommittee hearing on recommendations from the Inspector general and the Government Accountability Office. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) will chair the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight on Tuesday at …
State legislators could be making another study and examination of oil and gas drilling in relation to homes and businesses and the rights of those property owners. First, the State House Speaker has to approve the request for an interim study proposal that was made by Rep. Steve Kouplen, (D-Beggs) who submitted it prior to …
Media mogul Ted Turner has sold his 43,000 acre Bluestem Ranch in Osage County to the Osage Nation. It was a reported $74 million-purchase by the tribe, making the tribe one of the biggest landowners in the county. Turner, the man behind CNN and Turner Broadcasting bought the ranch in 2001 and raised buffalo. The …
The U.S. Geological Survey now says Western Colorado has far, far more natural gas than previously thought…maybe 40 times more. It’s what government and industry experts recently said in Denver, explain the Mancos Shale formation in the state’s Piceance Basin holds an estimated 66.3 trillion cubic feet of gas. That’s a huge increase from …
Cut the tax credits to the Oklahoma coal-mining industry and you cut money from small communities in the state. It’s the message from not only coal industry officials but from Mary Ann Pritchard, director of the Oklahoma Mining Department. “People don’t realize the coal industry affects small communities,” she said recently in an interview with …
At least one electric cooperative serving some Midwestern states makes it clear, it doesn’t think the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial Cean Power Plan is the way to go. And it’s almost as thought a government “catch 22” forced it to use coal to generate electricity. It’s what Michael McInness, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission …
The State Department of Environmental Quality is investigating Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College for allegedly dumping oil into a storm drain that feeds the Tar Creek in Miami. Skylar McElhaney, a spokeswoman at the DEQ indicated two complaints were received this month, alleging the college siphoned oil from a vehicle barn and used a hose to …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe used a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Thursday to again condemn the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, the one put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court. “The stakes are high when it comes to the Power Plan,” said the Senator in his opening comment as Chairman …