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Obama administration challenges oil, gas companies to drill already leased lands
Oil and gas companies are tapping only about 28 percent of federal sea floor they have leased and 56 percent of the onshore land they’ve leased is also sitting idle, the Interior Department said...
View ArticleFracking operation in Erie begins near two elementary schools, wakes up...
ERIE, COLO. — Flaggers in bright yellow vests stopped traffic on the parkway in Erie, Colo., Wednesday as a convoy of semi-trailer trucks rumbled toward Red Hawk Elementary hauling sound barriers to...
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Colorado kids to Encana: Don’t frack our schools
Editor’s note: This is the second in a multi-part series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here. ERIE — With black whiskers painted across her cheeks, 6-year-old Olivia Cusimano...
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Longmont doesn’t want to ‘look like Erie,’ residents seek to ban fracking...
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in an ongoing series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here and the second part here. LONGMONT — As she kept a watchful eye on her...
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With fracking creeping toward schools, candidates drill down their positions
Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here, the second part here and the third part here. As concerns mount over...
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Conservationists blast Colorado governor’s new utilities commission appointee
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s latest appointment to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission is irking environmentalists who question his commitment to clean energy. Pam PattonThe governor this week named...
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House passes sweeping energy package brought to you by Colorado Republicans
The U.S. House passed a sweeping energy package Thursday that Alison Gannett, a farmer in the North Fork Valley, said puts “oil and gas companies first and Coloradans last.” “Our Congressman should...
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Judge sends BLM back to drawing board to consider Roan Plateau drilling...
A federal judge ruled Friday that a Bush-era auction of gas leases on the Roan Plateau failed to adequately address its environmental impacts or entertain alternative, less-intrusive drilling plans....
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North Fork Valley federal lawsuit seeks end to secret oil, gas land...
Two groups filed a lawsuit (pdf) in federal court this week to learn the identities of the individuals or corporations who nominated 30,000 acres in the North Fork Valley for oil and gas drilling. The...
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Aspen Ideas Fest audience decides natural gas boom doing more harm than good
ASPEN — After an Oxford-style debate Sunday night, environmental attorneys Deborah Goldberg and Katherine Hudson convinced 15 percent of the audience here to change their minds about hydraulic...
View ArticleHomebrew: Danger in Colorado’s oil fields
Bad fumes In five years, eight people have died at crude oil production tanks – three here in Colorado. “By late April, federal health officials had enough evidence to sound a national alarm over a...
View ArticleWiretap: Did Exxon know about climate change in the 70s?
Buried facts New York is investigating whether Exxon, now Exxon Mobil, hid what it knew about climate change, dating back to the 1970s. It’s the latest take on...
View ArticleProtests against drilling on public lands are escalating
This story first appeared on High Country News. The movement to halt oil and gas drilling on public lands kicked into higher gear on May 12, as more than 250 protestors tried to shut down a...
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Conservationists blast Colorado governor’s new utilities commission appointee
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s latest appointment to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission is irking environmentalists who question his commitment to clean energy. Pam PattonThe governor this week named...
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House passes sweeping energy package brought to you by Colorado Republicans
The U.S. House passed a sweeping energy package Thursday that Alison Gannett, a farmer in the North Fork Valley, said puts “oil and gas companies first and Coloradans last.” “Our Congressman should...
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Judge sends BLM back to drawing board to consider Roan Plateau drilling...
A federal judge ruled Friday that a Bush-era auction of gas leases on the Roan Plateau failed to adequately address its environmental impacts or entertain alternative, less-intrusive drilling plans....
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North Fork Valley federal lawsuit seeks end to secret oil, gas land...
Two groups filed a lawsuit (pdf) in federal court this week to learn the identities of the individuals or corporations who nominated 30,000 acres in the North Fork Valley for oil and gas drilling. The...
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Aspen Ideas Fest audience decides natural gas boom doing more harm than good
ASPEN — After an Oxford-style debate Sunday night, environmental attorneys Deborah Goldberg and Katherine Hudson convinced 15 percent of the audience here to change their minds about hydraulic...
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‘Orphaned’ oil and gas wells are on the rise
In March 2015, Joe MacLaren, a state oil and gas inspector in Colorado, drove out to the Taylor 3 oil well near the tiny town of Hesperus, in the southwestern corner of the state. He found an entire...
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Drilling, one mile outside Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes
Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office last year, the administration has used its “energy dominance” agenda to require states to conduct quarterly sales on public lands across the West. As...
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