Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: energy
Energize essentials
Pump up your personal energy to ‘conquer all things.’
O tower, where art thou?
Chesapeake under fire
CFN
Gazette staff
At the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s legislative forum Jan. 27, attendees received a booklet with the goals for this year’s session. A full-page Chesapeake Energy advertisement touted “Natural Gas is fueling Oklahoma’s future” with a large, full-color photo of the downtown OKC skyline sans Devon Energy’s $750 million, 50-story tower.
Ruffled Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo. Who would have guessed?
CFN
Gazette staff
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.
Sweeping down the plains
Oklahoma stands on the frontier of alternative energy as more global companies locate wind farms in the Sooner State.
News
Brendan Hoover
Late last year, Acciona Energy began construction on the Dempsey Ridge Wind Farm located in Roger Mills County, a 132 MW facility consisting of 66 2.0 MW wind turbines located over 10,888 rural acres.
Auditions
OGE’s energy audits allow homeowners to see where they’re leaking energy and losing money.
News
Greg Horton
OGE wants to give you $355 worth of services and materials for only $50. Even the most Pollyannaish among us will raise an eyebrow at that claim. The deal is part of OGE’s Home Energy Efficiency Program, and it includes a home energy audit designed to save you money on your utility bill.
Point: Oklahoma resources first
The financial, environmental and health costs associated with nuclear energy development are too high.
Commentary
Robert 'Bud' Scott
Who would have thought “Fukishima reactor” would become part of the national vocabulary?
No fooling Mother Nature
Letters to the Editor
Ron Ferrell
Regarding Sen. Jim Inhofe’s Commentary (“Counterpoint: ‘Clean, reliable and affordable’ power”) in the April 20 Oklahoma Gazette:
Last call for ethanol?
Sen. Coburn’s attempts to eliminate an ethanol tax credit have drawn support from The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business Daily.
News
Clifton Adcock
A controversial amendment by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, that would end a tax credit for ethanol blending may come up for a vote when the Senate resumes session in May.
Like a bridge over ignorant waters
Letters to the Editor
Clinton Wiles
M.G. Oxsen’s “Designer’ debate” letter (May 18, Gazette) seems to have problems with complexity and leaving unknowns as unknowns.
Chicken fight
Lesser prairie chicken populations are dwindling, but some fear an ‘endangered’ designation might stress the economy.
News
Clifton Adcock
A group of energy company officials, agricultural organizations and state officials, along with the director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sat down Sept. 8 to talk not so much turkey, but chicken — lesser prairie chicken, to be exact.
