The FWS might list the lesser prairie chicken as an endangered species and is currently in the process of studying potential threats. The plains bird, which dwells in western Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, has been a candidate for listing for about a dozen years. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed […]
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Like a bridge over ignorant waters
His letter doesn’t grasp how evolution can be both a fact as observed in nature and exploited in energy and agriculture, while simultaneously being a well-supported theory describing the interrelated nature of all of life. His letter also fails to grasp that some fields of knowledge have limits either built in or beyond current understanding. […]
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No fooling Mother Nature
“Clean, reliable and affordable” are words of certainty, until Mother Nature kicks your ass. Katrina, the BP oil spill in the Gulf and the Exxon Valdez are just a few examples of what “won’t” go wrong in the pursuit of such energy. Now we have a list of earthquakes around the world, from Haiti to […]
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Sweeping down the plains
The project will create enough clean energy to power 46,000 homes and avoid the emission of approximately 339,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from conventional power plants, said Lisa Leipzig, project development manager for Acciona Energy North America. “Sustainability is core to how we do business,” Leipzig said. “We’re excited to be bringing another project […]
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Auditions
Matt White, an Oklahoma City resident, read about the service in a newsletter that came with his bill. He decided to call to schedule an appointment. “The house was built in 1931,” White said, “so I’d already been doing some remodeling and fixing up. I had spent some time educating myself about energy efficiency and […]
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Point: Oklahoma resources first
Weeks after the tsunami crippled Japan and caused economic and environmental damage, the reality has set in that regardless of how carefully a nuclear plant is designed, accidents will happen. Oklahoma should not be a target for new nuclear energy development. While nuclear energy generation accounts for a lower level of greenhouse gas emissions than […]
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Last call for ethanol?
Coburn has not only caught flak over the amendment from some in the ethanol industry, but also from the conservative tax group Americans for Tax Reform. Coburn said a bill to eliminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, which goes toward companies that blend ethanol, will save $5 billion annually. Coburn’s attempts to eliminate the […]
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Ruffled Ruffalo
Well, now an Academy Award-nominated actor is tweeting with the Oklahoma-based energy company. New York state resident Mark Ruffalo, an actor in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Zodiac,” “Shutter Island” and “The Kids Are All Right,” is an outspoken critic of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) and screened the “GasLand” doc in Pennsylvania in 2010. […]
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Energize essentials
Benjamin Franklin once said “energy and persistence conquer all things.” Franklin must’ve had more energy than most because he was an author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician and printer back in the 1700s, before energy drinks and vitamins were the norm. In 2011, how can we increase our personal energy to “conquer all things” in our […]
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O tower, where art thou?
Nary a crane was in sight even though construction has been under way for more than a year. Sometimes, the universe works in ironic ways. On the very same day that The Oklahoman ran an editorial titled “Natural gas anything but ignored in state,” Josh Fox’s “GasLand,” a film exposing the health and environmental risk […]