BY BRIAN BUSH <span style=" mso-bidi-line-height:115%”> As state policymakers debate how to increase Oklahoma’s historically significant role in energy exploration and production, I hope that both state and federal officials will keep in mind the growing concern among voters regarding unnecessary federal regulations that are hamstringing our energy industry. Business leaders and elected officials need […]
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Saving oil
This tells me that McVay, while he may have a background in environmental studies, also has a predisposition to defend an industry that is his livelihood. This makes his perspective about as reliable as an asbestos salesman telling me that all those cancer studies are taken out of context. Of course, to his credit, the […]
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Mary in the Motor City
With that in mind, state Gov. Mary Fallin, along with her Energy Secretary Michael Ming and Commerce Secretary Dave Lopez, are visiting Detroit today to pitch a multi-state, bipartisan compressed natural gas vehicle initiative to U.S. automakers. Fallin was among a dozen governors who wrote automakers in April expressing their commitment to explore ways to […]
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This week at the ’Peake
Credit: Brad Gregg First, the taxes. According to a report in Bloomberg News, Chesapeake has paid very little of the taxes owed on $5.5 billion it’s made since its founding. The reason rests with a law — written back when people were still mostly getting around on horse and buggy — that allows oil and […]
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PR BS
—“Oklahoma City University Hosts Presentation on Identifying Human Remains” —“Terra Industries Inc. to Pay $625,000 Clean Air Act Penalty and Spend $17 Million to Install Pollution Controls at Acid Plants in Iowa, Mississippi and Oklahoma” —“National Ad Campaign Reinforces Truth to Customers” —“Reliable Respiratory Uses Tabasco for ‘Hot’ Marketing Campaign” —“AG Pruitt Joins Multistate Fight […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
The president, I’m sure, knows very little about fracking. So he’s trying to be, I think, cautious in responding to it saying, ‘of course we want natural gas, but … we want to be sure we’re safe.’ I’ve fracked over 3,000 wells myself; they fracked on my ranch yesterday. I guess (Obama) feels like he […]
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Re-pimp your ride
The organization noted the following: —Low fluid levels can affect driving performance and damage internal parts. —Most breakdowns can be avoided by periodic checks of belts and hoses, and replacements of such when worn.—A dirty air filter can decrease gas mileage. —Low tire pressure decreases gas mileage and tire life. —Gazette staff
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Reporting burden
January 2010 was the starting date for the EPA’s greenhouse gas reporting program. Initially exempt from emissions reporting requirements, the oil and gas industry was included beginning Jan. 2 of this year. Tom Price, Chesapeake Energy’s senior vice president of corporate development and government relations, said his company is already recognized as a national leader […]
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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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App for gas
You should, as the price of gasoline has increased more than 25 percent in the last 12 months. To help you — or at least iPhone users — find the lowest prices to refill your vehicle’s thirsty tank, AAA has designed a free app for that. Utilizing the smartphone’s GPS capabilities, AAA TripTik Mobile displays […]