Tag: Thompson Divide
Colorado wilderness bill clears U.S. House, faces Trump veto threat All...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted Thursday to approve legislation to preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado.
Lawmakers voted 227-182, largely...
Massive Colorado wilderness bill advances in U.S. House
WASHINGTON -- Sweeping legislation that would preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado advanced in the U.S. House on Wednesday.
The House...
Guest Post: Colorado’s David Bernhardt has already shown his true colors...
Former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth penned a head-scratching piece in The Colorado Independent this week. In it, he paints the nomination of fellow Coloradan...
Thompson Divide announcement draws questions about the future of public lands
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell travelled to the state Capitol Thursday morning to formally announce the Bureau of Land Management’s cancellation of 25 undeveloped oil...
In Garfield County, critics say ‘local control’ will just shift more...
Residents of the second-most drilled county in Colorado warn backers of eleven “local control” ballot questions to be careful what they wish for, because oil and gas money will funnel into local races, they say, stacking county commissions and city councils in the industry’s favor.
Obama administration challenges oil, gas companies to drill already leased lands
Oil and gas companies are tapping only about 28 percent of federal offshore sea floor they have leased and 56 percent of the onshore land they’ve leased is also sitting idle, the Interior Department said Tuesday.
Coalition offers to pay energy companies $2.5 million to protect Thompson...
A coalition of groups in and around Carbondale is proposing a settlement to reimburse companies who own natural gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in exchange for retiring 43 leases currently in question and protecting the area from future energy development there.
Economists urge Obama, Congress to protect more public lands
Protecting public lands can be a boon for the private sector, attracting companies and workers to the communities that border them, more than 100 economists wrote in letter to President Obama this week.
Slick campaigning: Tipton taps oil and gas sector to fill coffers
Oil and gas money is greasing the wheels of U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton's reelection campaign, which more than doubled its fundraising bounty for the quarter that just ended, public records show.
Sen. Bennet balances energy talk on slippery Western Slope
During a three-day trip through the Western Slope this week, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet promoted clean energy as a means to create more jobs in Colorado and break the nation's dependence on foreign oil.