Hickenlooper On Sage Grouse, Fracking's Continued Court Battles, And Colorado...
The U.S. Department of Interior decided Tuesday that the greater sage grouse does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act. The bird spans 11 western states including Colorado, where it...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Colorado's Newly Proposed Oil & Gas Rules, Erie Is Ahead Of...
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the state's regulator, is proposing a new set of rules that would give local governments more say over drilling operations. The draft rules require...
View ArticleColorado's Draft Oil And Gas Rules Fail To Satisfy Those Seeking Local Control
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is considering two new rules governing how oil and gas operators work in populated areas. The draft rules stem from two unanimous recommendations made...
View ArticleLocal Governments Make Case For Halting Fracking At Colorado Supreme Court
Three decades ago, a gas well exploded near Greeley, Colorado. That event spurred voters to ban oil and gas drilling in the city limits . The ban was overturned by the state Supreme Court in 1992,...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Sound Alarm On Proposed Drilling Near Florida Everglades
Florida's Everglades has an ecosystem known for its sawgrass, cypress trees, alligators — and perhaps soon, oil wells. Oil drilling isn't allowed in the 1.5 million-acre Everglades National Park, but...
View ArticleAn Exit Interview With Mike King, Colorado's Director Of Natural Resources
Mike King, the executive director of Colorado's Department of Natural Resources, is leaving the position at the end of January 2016 to become Denver Water's new director of planning. Statehouse...
View ArticleA Word With Colorado's Speaker Of The House, Dickey Lee Hullinghorst
Colorado's Speaker of the House, Dickey Lee Hullinghorst (D-Boulder), is entering her second year as the leader of the chamber; she is also term limited at the end of the 2016 session. What are her...
View ArticleOld Oil & Gas Wells Living Under Your Colorado Neighborhood? It's A Hard...
When a well no longer produces commercial quantities of oil and gas, companies "abandon" it, usually by placing cement plugs inside the wellbore, to stop the flow of gas and fluids. The industry...
View ArticleWill Local Control Be On Colorado’s Ballot? Initiative 40 Backers To Start...
Despite efforts by Gov. John Hickenlooper to head off citizen ballot measures limiting hydraulic fracturing, a measure that would do just that is now collecting signatures to get on the ballot. The...
View ArticleColorado Supreme Court Invalidates Longmont's, Fort Collins' Stands On Fracking
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the city of Longmont's hydraulic fracturing ban and the moratorium in Fort Collins Monday. The state's highest court said that Longmont's ban...
View ArticleFollowing High Court Ruling, What Happens To Oil & Gas Moratoriums In...
Colorado Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled that state laws protecting the oil and gas industry overrule a hydraulic fracturing ban in Longmont [.pdf] and a five-year moratorium in Fort Collins...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Money, Colorado's Possible Ballot Fight Over Fracking Is...
There are a lot of ways to gauge momentum in politics. If you look at the money both sides of Colorado's hydraulic fracturing debate have raised so far, it seems to be a case of David versus Goliath....
View ArticleThe Future Of Oil And Gas Restrictions Is Murky In Colorado
2016 hasn’t been a good year for people who want to restrict oil and gas development in Colorado. Now the failure to collect enough valid signatures to put two anti-fracking initiatives on the November...
View ArticleColo. Attorney General Threatens Lawsuit Over Boulder County Oil, Gas Moratorium
Updated at 1:30 p.m. MT on Jan. 27 Boulder County could wind up in court over its continued moratorium on oil and gas development. Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman sent a letter to Boulder...
View ArticleWhy Cities Can't Ban Oil And Gas Drilling In Colorado
The conflict over oil and gas drilling -- as well as hydraulic fracturing -- has led to multiple protests, votes and court decisions in Colorado. Most recently, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia...
View ArticleBill To Make Oil And Gas Tampering A Felony In Colorado Ignites Debate
“If you put an entire community in danger, that shouldn’t be a felony?” asked Republican Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling during a packed committee hearing on Feb. 16. The topic of debate was Senate...
View ArticleBoulder County’s New Fracking Rules: 3 Things To Know
With its moratorium on new drilling permits set to expire in a few weeks, Boulder County commissioners unanimously passed new oil and gas regulations. The county calls them the “most restrictive” of...
View ArticleOil And Gas Company Ready To Take On Boulder County's Tough New Fracking...
Boulder County will resume issuing oil and gas drilling permits May 1, 2017, after a series of moratoriums halted the practice in 2012. Denver- based energy company Crestone Peak Resources has filed...
View ArticleBoulder County To Take Oil And Gas Fight To The Statehouse
With just a few days left in Boulder County’s oil and gas moratorium, county commissioners laid out their plan to gain more local control of the multibillion-dollar industry. Commissioners urged the...
View ArticleLiving With Uncertainty: Is Oil And Gas Bad For Your Health?
Across the county, in areas like north Texas, western Pennsylvania and in the suburbs and towns north of Denver, communities are becoming industrialized, dotted with oil and gas wells, laced with...
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