Colorado oil and gas regulators Tuesday passed sweeping rules to deal with the cumulative impacts of drilling and hailed it as “a big step forward,” but legislators, environmentalists and community groups criticized…
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Colorado oil and gas industry’s most high-profile advocate steps down
Dan Haley, who as the head of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association has been the industry’s most high-profile advocate in legislative, regulatory and ballot initiative battles, is leaving the association. Haley…
Colorado oil and gas operator with long record of environmental violations loses right to do business in state
Facing millions of dollars in fines, dozens of violations, legions of complaints from homeowners as well as local governments, oil and gas operator Prospect Energy on Wednesday had its right to do…
Key protection for impacted communities gutted in new draft of Colorado oil and gas rules, green groups say
The state Energy and Carbon Management Commission cut a key proposed protection for disadvantaged communities facing oil and gas drilling after a sustained pushback from the oil and gas industry, according to…
Lowry Ranch neighbors allowed to testify in hearings about oil and gas drilling near Aurora Reservoir
Arapahoe County residents who live near Aurora Reservoir on Tuesday won the right to intervene in state hearings and challenge a plan to drill 166 oil and gas wells on the nearby,…
Neighbors’ last shot at stopping oil and gas drilling near Aurora Reservoir is to be declared “affected persons”
Residents around Aurora Reservoir who are fighting a large-scale oil and gas drilling operation are trying to use an untested maneuver — seeking to be declared “affected persons” — to get their…
Calvin Sandborn: Big oil should pay for climate damage, not taxpayers
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Op-Ed Opinion: As British Columbians face unprecedented future climate damage, a key issue arises for the fall election. Citizens need to know whether candidates are committed to the…
Plan to drill 155 oil and gas wells near Lowry landfill in Aurora gets endorsement of top regulator
The controversial Lowry Ranch oil and gas development project received a boost from state regulators Monday, but the residents in the drilling area are vowing to fight on, saying that it is…
Most Colorado oil and gas wells do not generate enough cash to ensure they will be cleaned up, study says
Profitable oil and gas production in Colorado is increasingly concentrated in a few basins leaving the rest of the operations with few resources and posing risk to getting all 47,000 of the…
How much methane is Colorado’s oil and gas industry discharging? Regulators will soon start measuring.
Colorado air regulators are set to begin patrolling the state’s oil fields and the skies over them to tally how much methane the industry’s wells, tanks and pipelines are spewing into the…