Tag: haliburton
Trump’s next Interior secretary expected to push energy extraction in Colorado...
WASHINGTON – The Colorado native poised to become the next secretary of the U.S. Interior Department could bring more energy development to the state’s...
DeGette, Polis ‘fracking’-disclosure camp up against big-money opponents in Congress
Colorado Democratic U.S. Reps Diana DeGette and Jared Polis are leading supporters of a move to force natural-gas drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use to blast gas out of the ground in an increasingly controversial process called "fracking." The two lawmakers were joined Thursday by 46 members of Congress in sending a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to back a proposal in which the Interior Department would require disclosure of all materials used in fracking operations conducted on public lands. The DeGette and Polis bloc faces strong opposition in Congress and, turns out, their main opponents are pulling down large donations from oil and gas companies.
EPA forced to subpoena Haliburton for fracking information
The Environmental Protection Agency reported Tuesday that eight out of nine companies engaged in the controversial and expanding natural gas industry practice of hydraulic...
Campbell’s ‘top kill’ oil plug procedure looks like this
This is what it looks like right now 5,000 feet down as champion oil-leak-stopper Pat Campbell attempts to plug the Deepwater Horizon gusher that...
Pat Campbell will attempt to plug the Gulf oil gushers today
This guy, "fat boy" Pat Campbell, is probably going to save the Gulf of Mexico today from further catastrophe, after British Petroleum and the...
EPA to study hydraulic fracturing, but calls for FRAC Act continue
Backers of the controversial FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, including co-sponsor Diana DeGette (D-Denver), were quick to caution Thursday that a...
Phone-tamperer O’Keefe’s bad week gets worse: Judge rules ACORN defunding unconstitutional
James O'Keefe has admitted spearheading a misguided "phone-tampering" operation at Sen. Mary Landieu's office in New Orleans this week. "As an investigative journalist,...
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.
Haliburton, KBR shareholders sue firms as proxy for Bush-Cheney cronyism
Remember how MBA George W. Bush was going to be our CEO president? How he was going to run the country like he would run a business? Well, on that promise, at least, he delivered.
Americans frustrated by the lack of accountability of the Bush-Cheney administration may get some satisfaction from the knowledge that the Administration ran the main businesses it was tied to the same way it ran the country -- and there is some rich accountability taking hold in that realm.