Tag: Garfield County
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.
Taxpayers group in hot water over electioneering snafu
Once again a local political advocacy group headed by GOP operative Scott Shires is the subject of a campaign finance complaint for its involvement in a bitter 2008 Garfield County commissioners race that attracted lots of energy industry dough and carpetbagger activists.
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.
Is oil and gas overrated?
Colorado’s recent energy boom has impacted the environment without having economic benefits as great as those generated by other industries, according to a new study.
The report produced by the nonprofit research group Headwaters Economics, concludes that Colorado needs to lobby the federal government harder in order to control the pace of energy development on public lands, use state authority to protect the landscape of impacted communities and change the mineral tax structure to capture more value.
Can outdoor recreation and energy sector coexist on Colorado’s Western Slope?
The oil-and-gas debate on Colorado’s Western Slope is as rife with contradictions as the ridgelines and valleys of Garfield County are with drilling rigs.
Hunters in pickup trucks you’d expect to see plastered with “Drill here, drill now” bumper stickers instead sport the “Save the Roan” rallying cry. Ski-area executives whose industry in some cases was built with oil money can’t buy enough wind energy nor contribute fast enough to campaigns to raise oil and gas severance taxes.
Energy-funded 527 targets Garfield County Commission race
A 527 group funded by an oil and gas company is slumming in a down-ticked race for Garfield County Commission, according to the Aspen Daily News, a sure sign of just how much money is at stake in the natural-gas fields west of Glenwood Springs.
Local Officials Rebuke Oil Companies Over Waste-Pit Spills
Representatives from Chevron, Oxy, Conoco-Philips, EnCana, Williams Production, Antero, Berry and Marathon, among other top oil and gas companies, sat at a horseshoe-shaped conference...
Salazar Brothers Team Up to Find Balance in Energy Development
Western Colorado has seen the extractive industry come and go, so U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and his brother, U.S. Congressman John Salazar, D-Manassas,...
Landowners Question Special Treatment for Housing Oil and Gas Workers
Garfield County is considering regulations that would allow oil and gas companies to house workers on well sites, even if the rigs are on...
New Man Camp Regs May Test Private Property Rights
Will oil and gas companies be allowed to set up small temporary man camps on private land without the landowner's permission or county review?...