Tag: Western Slope
Bill aims to improve wages, working conditions for immigrant shepherds
State Rep. Daniel Kagan, D-Denver, is proposing a bill to improve conditions for immigrant shepherds on Colorado’s Western Slope, according to the Grand Junction...
Our beautiful resource hogs: Aspenites fight report of water-guzzling
Aspenites, long vilified as second-home-owning, heated-driveway-loving, jet-setting energy hogs, use 10 times more water than the average American, reported the Denver Post on Monday,...
Reports: ExxonMobil wary of FRAC Act, conflicted on climate change bill
ExxonMobil’s acquisition of natural gas giant XTO Energy – the hot topic in the gas-field communities of Colorado’s Western Slope this week – has...
Times follows e-mail trail in 11th-hour oil shale leasing probe of...
The Los Angeles Times continues to follow the e-mail trail in the 11th-hour Bush administration bid to lock in low royalty rates for highly...
Ritter’s office fires back at McInnis on drilling regulations, natural gas...
EDWARDS — Energy attorney Scott McInnis this week continued to hammer Gov. Bill Ritter for policies McInnis says have crippled Colorado’s natural gas industry and cost the state thousands of jobs at a time of severe economic hardship.
Three oil and gas companies fined for polluting stream near Parachute
Three oil and gas companies have been fined nearly $700,000 for allowing loose dirt from a pipeline project and access road to wash over...
Gas drilling impacts on Big Apple’s water supply now a mayoral...
Perhaps when mayors of small mountain towns on Colorado’s Western Slope express concerns about the environmental impacts of natural gas drilling it doesn’t cause...
Natural gas sector banking on cold winter, economic surge to boost...
Analysts who track natural gas prices and supplies say the industry is banking on a cold winter and an economic recovery to bolster a...
COGA prez resignation has green groups nervous
The resignation of Meg Collins as president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) has touched off speculation in conservation circles that the...
DeGette, Polis introduce FRAC Act aimed at closing hydraulic fracturing ‘loophole’
Using some rather pointed language aimed at Bush administration energy policies in general and former Vice President Dick Cheney in particular, Colorado Rep.’s Diana DeGette, D-Denver, and Jared Polis, D-Boulder, Tuesday introduced the FRAC Act aimed at closing a natural-gas drilling loophole in the Safe Drinking Water Act.