Tag: Antero Resources
Despite heat, pioneering Rio Blanco County stands by energy impact fees
Oil and gas companies fought the fees at every turn, in part leery of the precedent it might set not only for other gas-rich counties in Colorado, but also around the nation. The possibility of impact fees quickly became a campaign issue in neighboring Garfield County during the 2008 county commissioner election.
Battle brews over gas regulations in Battlement Mesa
Battlement Mesa, a community of nearly 6,000 on Colorado’s Western Slope, is poised to live up to its name and become a legal battleground over the sticky issue of state versus local control over oil and gas drilling.
Afternoon News Nuggets: 13 July 2009
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Key meetings set on Battlement Mesa, Rulison and Divide Creek drilling
A series of key state and county meetings on a variety of controversial natural-gas drilling issues will take place this week and next in...
Battlement Mesa residents leery of plan to drill for gas right...
It’s a valid question: If you retired to Colorado’s sunny Western Slope for the laidback mountain lifestyle but bought into a community purpose-built for workers during the oil shale boom of the 1980s, should you be shocked when drilling rigs sprout like pinon pines in your neighborhood?
Battlement Mesa residents are grappling with that question these days after Denver-based Antero Resources recently struck a deal to drill up to 200 gas wells from 10 pads right in town — some within a few hundred feet of homes and the municipal golf course.