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Wednesday Links
- Oklahoma researchers look for cash in the switchgrass
- At Oklahoma schools, Obama’s speech stirs little ado
- Family may sue over Oklahoma inmate’s slaying
- ODOT approves $4 billion 8-year plan for bridges and highways
- With Mercury Marine moving on, Stillwater looks to its own
- Cherokees using computers to preserve native language [MP3 Audio]
Western Farmers Electric Coop expanding with wind, natural gas
From The Journal Record:
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative added 300 megawatts of power generation capacity in the last year and plans to add more smart generation from natural gas and wind, Gary Roulet, CEO, said on Tuesday at the 2009 Oklahoma Emerging Technology Conference in Midwest City.
Energy industry still key to Oklahoma economy
From The Associated Press:
The latest revenue shortfall in Oklahoma is a reminder that despite recent efforts to diversify the state’s economy, its financial fortunes still rise and fall with those of the energy industry.
More than 25 years after the famed oil bust devastated the Oklahoma economy, the culprit this time is natural gas prices that have dropped well below $3 per 1,000 cubic feet — the lowest point since 2002.
Wind energy shows great potential in Oklahoma
From The Norman Transcript:
Oklahoma is No. 8 in the nation for potential production of wind power.
It’s not No. 8 in production yet, but the wind power industry has come a long way since it started in 2003, a Department of Commerce official said Thursday.
This week in Okie blogs
- The Journal Record’s Hot Topic: Polluted words from OEC
- OK Policy Blog: What are we buying with the state budget?
- OKC Central: Should we demolish existing buildings for Core to Shore?
- Downtown on the Range: Importance of OKC Medical District underestimated
- Ok Policy Blog: Oklahoma not a poor state – We just play one on TV
- Dustbury: The benefits of density
- The Lost Ogle: Maybe Jim Inhofe’s head qualifies for Cash for Clunkers
- Oklahomans for Responsible Government: Most counties still lack websites
- OK Policy Blog: Why not hold tax incentives to the same standards as other spending?
Oklahoma ranked 4th most vulnerable state to gas hikes
From The Journal Record:
Oklahoma ranks as the nation’s fourth most vulnerable state to oil price hikes, according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
With $2,766.67, or 7.5 percent of the average resident’s annual income, spent on gasoline last year, the Sooner State trailed only Mississippi, Montana and South Carolina in the NRDC’s list of most-vulnerable states.
Who owns the wind?
From The Journal Record:
Much has been discussed and written recently regarding the rising specter of wind power in general and how its emergence as a truly sustainable energy source will impact Oklahoma specifically. While this growing expansion of understanding of the wind industry has produced proponents and some detractors, it has raised some interesting and unresolved questions.
Jim Roth on the environmental disaster you never heard about
From The Journal Record:
The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. The toxic waste incident at Love Canal in 1978. The Kingston Fossil Plant fly ash slurry spill in Roane, Tenn., in 2008. What? There was a massive environmental disaster in 2008?
Bokoshe, OK and the True Cost of Electricity
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding hearings next week over whether to regulate coal ash as a hazardous waste. To see why this is so important, check out this Voices of Oklahoma article from April 2009 about how coal ash is affecting the small Oklahoma town of Bokoshe.… Continue reading
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