Add Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan to the growing list of what some call “tourons,”—tourists who visit Yellowstone National Park and do something they should not be doing. It’s a combination of the two words “Tourists” and “morons.” According to the Cowboy State Daily, the Irish actor known for his …
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Looking back on energy issues that happened in 2023, one was the testimony offered to Congress by Lucas Gjovig, CEO of GO Wireline who is also a member of the Oklahoma Workforce Advisory board. He testifed in March before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee’s Subcommittee on …
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The USDA Forest Service announced this week plans to develop an Environmental Impact State for a proposed coal mining project just across the Oklahoma line in the Ouachita National Forest. The Heavener Coal Leasing Project is the effort of Emera Corporation, on behalf of Ouro Mining Inc. The firm …
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A national study reported Oklahoma has the fifth highest number of fatal large truck crashes in the US, behind only, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico and Wyoming. TRIP’s report, America’s Rolling Warehouses: Opportunities and Challenges with the Nation’s Freight Delivery System, examines current and projected levels of freight movement in the …
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The Biden administration once again is reaching deeper into the pockets of taxpayers to fund billions of dollars in tax credits to hydrogen producers. Details of the plan were laid out Friday as the government wants to get behind a big push to build the industry as a cleaner …
Read More »(Victor J. Blue photo/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A Wyoming man has been sentenced to four years in prison and fined $1 million over a scam of claiming to have developed a “really incredible” hydrogen-powered truck to get people to invest. A federal judge in New York ordered Trevor Milton, …
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Okeene State Rep. Mike Dobrinski has been named Chairman of the House Utilities Committee. House Speaker Charles McCall made the announcement of Dobrinski’s appointment as well as that of Lawton Rep. Trey Caldwell to be Vice Chair of the House Appropriations and Budget Committee. “Rep. Caldwell and Rep. Dobrinski …
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Crude oil prices in the US will have a chance to respond to Friday’s drop, an apparent reaction to Angola’s decision to pull out of OPEC raising hopes that the country could increase crude oil production. But there was also the nagging issue of the Houthi attacks on ships passing …
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While crude oil prices fell Thursday after Angola announced plans to exit OPEC, Oklahoma energy stocks experienced gains of up to 4%. Angola’s move raised questions about OPEC’s abilities to impact prices by limiting its production supplies around the globe. As a result, West Texas Intermediate crude fell 33 cents …
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As he raised questions about the use of private I-phones and cell phones by employees of the Corporation Commission, Oklahoma regulator Bob Anthony got a surprise. During Thursday’s meeting, he was informed the agency has 350 business cell phones used by its employees. “I wouldn’t have guessed we had …
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