Tag: Rio Blanco County
Teaching through technology Rural teachers share challenges and triumphs of distance...
Rio Blanco County — Our schoolteachers have been assigned a Herculean task: learn an entirely new way of connecting with and teaching their students,...
EVENT: A conversation about mental illness and law enforcement in rural...
Next month will mark the year anniversary of Daniel Pierce’s death. The newcomer to the rural northwest Colorado community of Rangely was suffering from...
Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a rural...
Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part collaboration between The Colorado Independent and The Rio Blanco Herald Times. We will post the...
Rare Colorado wildflowers survive 30 years of bureaucratic bumbling
Saving tiny patches of rare plants from extinction is no easy task. In most cases, you can't just put a fence around them and call it good.
Green shareholders push Williams, Exxon to clear air on hydraulic fracturing
Green investor groups are pushing some of the nation’s largest natural gas drilling companies to come clean on hydraulic fracturing, a process that injects...
State supreme court deals blow to county gas drilling impact fees
Impact fees assessed against equipment used by oil and gas companies in Rio Blanco County – most notably ExxonMobil – took a big hit...
ExxonMobil’s natural-gas plunge makes sense globally and in Colorado
Analysts are calling ExxonMobil’s $31 billion acquisition of natural-gas giant XTO Energy a much safer bet than a similar leap made by energy conglomerate...
Western Slope schools losing students to ongoing natural-gas downturn
The ongoing downturn in natural gas drilling on Colorado’s Western Slope is taking a toll on local school districts, according to the Grand Junction...
Oil and gas drilling permits on 2005 pace, with GarCo still...
Oil and gas drilling permits in Colorado in 2009 are on pace to slightly top 2005 numbers, according an analysis by the Grand Junction...
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.