Texas blast highlights weak regulations
Source: SF Gate
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-27 19:37:41 -0700 | green-news
Eighteen years after a domestic terrorist murdered 168 people in Oklahoma City with an ammonia nitrate bomb, the federal government and the chemical industry are still jockeying over how to regulate a volatile and plentiful fertilizer that contributed to the...
Authorities Still Don't Know What Caused The Texas Fertilizer Explosion
Source: BusinessInsider
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 15:17:07 -0700 | green-news
A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200, authorities still don't know exactly why the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company plant exploded. Here's what we do know: The...
Southern Adds 250 MW of Wind to Power Purchases
Source: The Motley Fool
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 14:25:52 -0700 | green-news
announced today that its Georgia Power subsidiary will add 250 MW of wind to its power purchases. The regulated utility plans to source cost-effective energy from EDP Renewables wind farms in Oklahoma, a move that Georgia Power President and CEO...
Earthquake swarm keeps central Okla. all shook up
Source: SF Gate
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 11:56:13 -0700 | green-news
More annoying than threatening, tiny tremors are shaking portions of central Oklahoma with increasing frequency rattling homes, knocking things over and interrupting sleep. "I feel them every time," said Luther resident Felicia Bennett ...No fewer than 16 small earthquakes were...
Fertilizer Shows Its Deadly Side
Source: National Public Radio
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 00:22:19 -0700 | green-news
My first reaction when I heard details of this week's deadly fertilizer explosion in Texas was horror. My second thought was, "Maybe I shouldn't have pushed to change that headline." National Geographic magazine just published in its May issue my...
National guardsmen to conduct earthquake training
Source: The Journal Gazette
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 06:33:02 -0700 | green-news
National guardsmen from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas are conducting emergency training in Oklahoma to prepare in case a major earthquake strikes the region. The exercise called "Vigilant Guard" will be held Wednesday at the Camp Gruber Training Site...
Series of moderate earthquakes shakes Oklahoma
Source: Fox
Luther :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 03:36:13 -0700 | green-news
Geological Survey says several earthquakes have shaken central Oklahoma...She said three earthquakes have been confirmed and that she was working on a confirming a possible fourth. She says the strongest was a magnitude 4.3 quake centered near the town of...
Series of earthquakes shakes central Oklahoma
Source: The Boston Globe
Luther :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 08:48:26 -0700 | green-news
Geological Survey says several earthquakes have shaken central Oklahoma...She said three earthquakes have been confirmed and that she was working on a confirming a possible fourth. She says the strongest was a magnitude 4.3 quake centered near the town of...
Oklahoma St. tries to restore land by tree cutting
Source: SF Gate
Stillwater :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-14 13:31:56 -0700 | green-news
Okla. (AP) Hundreds of overturned trees line the side of State Highway 51 west of Stillwater, twisted in fences and piled on top of one another. Farther back from the road, acres of Eastern red cedars lay on their sides,...
Hydro-China deal safe from carbon changes
Source: The Courier-Mail
Hydro :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-10 00:24:08 -0700 | green-news
Tasmania is confident a $1.6 billion deal with Chinese energy company Shenua would be unaffected by changes to the carbon tax. Prime Minister Julia Gillard was on hand as Hydro signed an agreement with Shenua in Beijing to pursue wind...
Mining polluters sought in effort to restore Oklahoma's Grand Lake
Source: Tulsa World
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-02 00:30:09 -0700 | green-news
A 105-page draft document lays out tentative plans to restore habitats and compensate for tribal fish loss in Grand Lake caused by decades of lead and zinc mining upstream. The "Restoration and Compensation Determination Plan" was developed on behalf of...
It almost time for warm-season planting in Tulsa area
Source: Tulsa World
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-04-01 00:45:23 -0700 | green-news
Take dirt samples from 10 areas of your garden or yard, mix them together and submit to a county extension office for testing. Courtesy Early April is the time of year when gardeners get ready for warm-season vegetables...The spring frost-free...
Inhofe 'Proud' To Be A Target In Climate Change Documentary
Source: The Huffington Post
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-03-29 16:56:00 -0700 | green-news
Sen. James Inhofe is taking criticism of his climate change denial as a compliment. The Oklahoma Republican is one of the central targets in the newly released climate change documentary "Greedy Lying Bastards," which examines attempts by the fossil fuel...
Oklahoma's strongest earthquake has been linked to the oil industry
Source: io9
Prague :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-03-28 06:36:32 -0700 | green-news
A new study in the journal Geology is linking Oklahoma's November 6th, 2011, earthquake to the injection of wastewater deep underground water that's used both in fracking and the extraction of petroleum from conventional oil wells. The 5.6 magnitude quake,...
Controversial fracking wells blamed for US earthquake
Posted by: Robert Weller
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-03-28 10:33:04 -0700 | green-news
News reports say scientists are blaming the oil extraction process called “fracking” for a magnitude-5.7 earthquake in the US state of Oklahoma two years ago. The BBC, Clean Technica and others report the practice led to the biggest earthquake ever...
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