Tag: Oil And Gas
Western Tradition attacks 98-year-old corporate campaign spending ban
The conservative Astroturf group that spent thousands to swing the Longmont City Council back to the right last November and keep the Garfield County...
Curry says drilling regs likely not a factor in Ritter’s decision...
State Rep. Kathleen Curry, who recently stunned political observers with her switch from Democrat to Independent, told the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel she doesn’t...
GOP: What climate change? What new energy economy?
There is thoughtful skepticism and then there is today's Republican Study Committee release mocking the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions threaten human health. Reading...
Ralston heralds wilderness plan to block ‘extractive development’
AVON -- Colorado mountaineer Aron Ralston, famous for a bouldering mishap in Utah which he survived by amputating his own forearm, has been touring...
Hidden Gems, or locked away too tightly? Wilderness plan stirs debate
A coalition of environmental groups looking to drum up local support for a huge new wilderness bill that could protect up to 450,000 acres...
Obama admin dips toe into legal fray over conflicting roadless rule...
Thursday’s court filing by the Department of Justice in the 10th Circuit Court in Wyoming, which has federal jurisdiction over Colorado, indicating the DOJ...
Fear of Rio Blanco-style energy impact fees colored Garfield County election
Two Democrats who lost out in a nasty election for the Garfield County board of commissioners last year say the main reason they were targeted by the oil and gas industry was something that happened earlier in 2008 in neighboring Rio Blanco County.
Secret trade pact between U.S., Europe could void local laws on...
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open up a door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities. The agreement could also create conditions in which federal, state and local regulations affecting those facilities could be challenged as barriers to international trade.
Enviros want Obama’s Final Four to remain roadless
Environmentalists won’t allow President Obama to sit on the bench of sports escapism for even a minute without reminding him of his obligations to reject the Bush administration’s eight-year full-court press on America’s national forests.
Proposed Pueblo solar plant generates buzz, barbs
News this week that Colorado could one day be home to the nation’s largest concentrated solar power plant — a facility of at least 200 megawatts near Pueblo — comes as welcome news to an energy sector faltering right along with the rest of the economy.
But some critics say continuing to artificially mandate renewable energy simply drives up the price of coal- and gas-generated electricity, which still provides the vast majority of power in Colorado.