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Glenwood ‘regs rally’ to back more stringent rules for oil, gas...

Garfield County, the so-called “ground zero” of the late, great oil and gas boom, will be the scene of a rally in support of the more stringent drilling regulations currently being debated in the Statehouse in Denver.

Western Slope braces for energy bust, but oil and gas regs...

Call it a slowdown or call it a bust, but it’s clear the natural-gas boom stoking the fires of development on Colorado’s Western Slope the last several years is all but over.

Salazar lays down law on Interior scandals

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar wants the Justice Department to take another look into scandals at the Minerals Management Service with an eye to further criminal prosecution and plans to undertake a "fundamental restructuring of the MMS royalty program," which last year reaped $23.4 billion from oil and gas companies that drill on public land. Salazar, the former Democratic senator named recently to the Obama Cabinet, announced his plans for MMS Thursday afternoon after meeting with the agency's employees in Lakewood.

Salazar travels to Lakewood Thursday to announce strict ethics policy reform

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday he plans to visit Lakewood on Thursday with a message of sweeping reform for the Department, which he said has been "tarnished by ethical lapses and criminal behavior that has extended to the highest levels of government." In scathing remarks delivered at the White House, the former senior senator from Colorado said he plans to meet with federal employees at the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency that collects billions of dollars for the federal government from oil and gas companies that drill on public land. Salazar said he would make it clear he "will no longer tolerate" the "ethical transgressions" that led to last summer's MMS "scandal involving sex, drugs, and inappropriate gifts from oil and gas companies."

Interior Department disciplines Denver workers in sex, drugs and oil scandal

The Department of Interior has disciplined eight government employees for their role in a wide-ranging scandal that involved illegal drugs, sex with oil company employees and financial shenanigans at a federal agency in Denver charged with collecting energy royalties for taxpayers, The Associated Press reported Friday morning.

Senate race sparks Western Slope energy debates

In many ways, the race for state Senate District 8 in Northwest Colorado is emblematic of the intense conflict between the state’s resurgent mining and energy industries and the long-dominant tourism and outdoor recreation economy that boomed after the last mining bust.

Members Claim Club 20 Controlled by Oil and Gas

Ponytailed, liberal and a member of the Green Party, San Miguel County Commissioner Art Goodtimes served for 10 years on the board of...

New Study Measures Oil and Gas Impacts in NW Colorado

Northwest Colorado is teeming with activity from the oil and gas industry, but the boom has been adversely affecting roads, public services and housing...

Draft on New Drilling Regs Released

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has released its draft proposal on new oil and gas regulations today. Whether the new rules...

Water Quality in NW Colorado: Is it the Pits?

Mud and chemicals discharged from five waste pits at drilling sites on the Roan Plateau are seeping into the Parachute Creek watershed. With snowmelt...
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