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After a tumultuous Negotiated Rulemaking Committee meeting Jan. 25, where landowner after landowner said their complaints fell on deaf ears at the Osage Agency, a solution may be near.

Acting BIA Osage Agency Superintendent Rhonda Loftin said at a Feb. 20 Osage Minerals Council meeting that the Agency is implementing a tracking system for every complaint made, to track the problem from beginning to end.

Stories of unenforced drilling regulations from Osage County landowners rained down on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Friday, Jan. 25.

Surrounded by more than 80 landowners at the Wah-Zha-Zhi Cultural Center, the committee listened as story after story of environmental hazards caused by oil companies on their lands endangered cattle, wildlife, and loved ones.

The BIA Osage Agency has a new acting superintendent and no one is saying why, on the record.

Rhonda Loftin will be filling in for Osage Agency Superintendent Melissa Currey while she is out of the office for 120 days.

TULSA, Okla. – This year’s Osage Oil and Gas Summit’s annual lease auction raised $14,200 with three land tracts selling close to the minimum bid amounts for oil and gas production. The total is one of the lowest amounts raised during the auctions geared at leasing land tracts and offering a bonus to the quarterly shareholder payments.

The 11th annual Osage Oil and Gas Summit and will be held Nov. 7 and 8 at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa with a lease auction on Nov. 7.

Opening ceremonies start at 9 a.m. Nov. 7 and the oil/gas lease auction starting at 10:30 a.m. Presentations by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and oil and gas professionals on both days of the summit.

The Hyatt Regency Tulsa is downtown at 100 E. 2nd St.

The Osage Minerals Council’s Negotiated Rulemaking Committee is hosting two open meetings on Sept. 27 and 28 in Tulsa.

The committee is meeting with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in a series of planned meetings to update the Code of Federal Regulations concerning the Osage Minerals Estate. More committee meetings are planned for October and November.

The Sept. 27 and 28 committee meetings will be held at the Doubletree Hotel at Warren Place, 6110 S. Yale Ave. in Tulsa. Both meetings start at 9 a.m. and last until 6 p.m.

Wind farms are on the horizon.

A federal judge declined the Osage Nation’s request to stop a proposed wind farm from construction in western Osage County, stating the tribe failed to prove it would be harmed by the project.

The 10th Annual Oil & Gas Summit will be hosted Nov. 9 and 10 at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa. For more information, contact the Osage Minerals Council at (918) 287-5433.

The Osage Minerals Council voted to rescind a resolution that would have sent $50,000 to the plaintiffs in the Jech vs. United States lawsuit April 20.

The OMC voted to help fund the lawsuit last year but due to some second thoughts by Councilmen Melvin Core and Myron Red Eagle, the check was never sent. Since that time Chief John Red Eagle said he would not support the case or help fund it, members of the Osage Congress brought attention to the account the money was to come from and asked for an audit, and on March 31 the case was dismissed.