Energy
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Energy industry slighted in feds’ report on Colorado’s economy, critics say
Valerie Richardson / The Colorado Observer
The Interior Department issued a report Monday taking credit for contributing $14.44 billion to Colorado’s economy in 2011, but at least one industry group wasn’t buying it.
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Another Colorado city adopts restrictive fracking regs
Leslie Jorgensen / The Colorado Observer
Citing the media’s negative focus on fracking and public pressure, the Commerce City Council members unanimously voted Monday to approve the most restrictive local ordinance to regulate development of oil and gas in the state.
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Federal fracking regs could take a toll on industry, economy, study says
Valerie Richardson / The Colorado Observer
An analysis of proposed federal rules governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands shows that the regulations would cost the energy industry at least $1.5 billion annually to implement.
The study, released Tuesday by the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance
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State’s highest court curbs condemnation power for pipelines
David Forster / Law Week Colorado
Companies that transport oil do not have the power under state law to take property from unwilling landowners in order to lay new pipeline, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The court’s decision, which overturned an appellate court ruling, turns on what is considered a pipeline…
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State, local governments butt heads over energy policy
Tyler Sandberg / The Colorado Observer
A fight is brewing over oil and gas development along the Front Range, with the most recent front opening in the city of Longmont; only in Longmont the battle is more over process than policy.
Last Tuesday, Longmont’s city council gave initial approval to…ban oil and gas development…
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Federal report: Energy bonanza waiting to be tapped under West Slope
Michael Sandoval / The Colorado Observer
Trillions of barrels of potentially recoverable oil lies within the Green River Formation of Colorado and Utah, and perhaps as much or more than the current proven oil reserves for the entire world, according to a new report…
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Critics take dim view of ‘drastic reduction’ in pending oil-shale plan
Valerie Richardson / The Colorado Observer
SILT, CO — There were no chairs at the Bureau of Land Management’s only Colorado public meeting on its oil-shale draft plan, and that was no accident.
The last thing agency officials wanted was a forum for disgruntled Western Slope residents…
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Lawmakers nix expanded frack-free zones; say it would kill jobs
Debi Brazzale / Colorado News Agency
Saying they feared it would kill jobs, lawmakers at the Capitol killed a measure Monday that would have required gas and oil “fracking” operations to stay farther away from homes and schools.
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House Bill 1176, sponsored by Rep. Su Ryden, D-Aurora…
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Going a-courting for the guv’s veto
“How much is one vote worth? If it’s the governor’s, it’s either 46 cents or tens…of thousands of dollars.”
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