The big movers and shakers when it comes to employment in Oklahoma.
To drill an oil, gas or disposal well in Oklahoma, operators have to post a bond with the Corporation Commission. But the financial requirements to drill in Oklahoma are the lowest in the region — too low to cover the risk of abandoned wells, the Journal Record’s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports.
The average Oklahoma driver spent $2,818 on gasoline in 2011 — or about 7.56 percent of their annual income — the fifth-highest in the country, according to a new report from a national environmental group. Last year, Oklahoma ranked No. 6 in the National Resource Defense Council report, which used data from 2010. (Right-click here [...]
Devon Energy and Continental Resources will hedge oil and natural gas in 2013, but not Chesapeake Energy. The Oklahoma City natural gas giant’s CEO Aubrey McClendon is going all-in on a bold weather wager, reports the Journal Record‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo: He’s betting that a cold winter will drive up demand for the heating fuel, increasing [...]
The polling ahead of this year’s election was mostly accurate. But one Oklahoma poll was among those that missed the mark badly when, just days before the election, it showed Tulsa County’s Vision2 tax extension headed for victory. Close to 60 percent of respondents said they were in favor of Arkansas River dam upgrades and [...]
Gov. Mary Fallin is getting intense “behind-the-scenes” lobbying from health care interests.
A top SandRidge investor wants the Oklahoma City energy company to consider selling itself and is calling for CEO Tom Ward to step down. TPG-Axon Capital, an investment firm that owns 4.5 percent of SandRidge’s stock, went after the company’s board of directors in a letter by the firm’s founder Dinakar Singh, reports the Journal [...]
The Vision2 proposal is up for a vote Tuesday in Tulsa County. It’s a $750 million sales tax extension that would spread millions to the county and its communities for quality of life improvements of their choosing. But the largest portion of Vision2 spending is earmarked for economic development, and most of that money will be [...]
Supporters of Tulsa’s Vision2 tax package have a lot more campaign cash than their opponents. While Vision2 proponents have almost $600,000 on hand, anti-tax package team Citizens for a Better Vision have a war chest with about $11,000 in cash and in-kind donations, reports the Tulsa World‘s Brian Barber, who sifted through campaign finance reports [...]
Northstar Agri Industries on Monday announced plans to build a canola processing plant in Enid. Construction won’t begin for a year, The Oklahoman‘s Paula Burkes reports, but the plant means more than 50 jobs for the state. The bigger news, however, is for Oklahoma farmers — especially wheat farmers. So why should the state’s grain [...]
While “energy independence” has become a political talking point, the goal of reducing the country’s foreign energy reliance is a big deal in petroleum-rich states like Oklahoma. But if the U.S. achieved energy independence, would ordinary Americans even notice? David Kestenbaum from NPR’s Planet Money team explored one everyday energy issue in Canada, America’s energy [...]
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