The Colorado Independent

Economy/Finance

Denver protest targets Wells Fargo

By | 05.09.12 | 4:31 pm

A couple of dozen people gather on a busy downtown street with signs and bullhorns, and the question that bystanders and reporters alike want to ask is always the same: “What do you want to accomplish?”

At Colorado oil drilling site, Mitt Romney tries to apply heat to Obama’s energy policies

By | 05.09.12 | 2:31 pm

FT. LUPTON — Standing in front of an oil derrick and a tanker truck, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney attacked the Obama administration’s energy policies Wednesday, dismissing the fact that domestic oil production has gone up since the president took office.

Snowless ski race helps connect dots between climate change, real problems

By | 05.07.12 | 9:21 am

Gnarly terrain greeted a group of climate change activists in Aspen over the weekend.

DeGette calls federal fracking rule ‘a good first step,’ but warns of ‘a devil’s bargain’

By | 05.04.12 | 3:06 pm

In a concession to the oil and gas industry, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed a rule Friday that wouldn’t require the disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids until after drilling is completed.

BLM to defer disputed auction for oil, gas leases in tranquil North Fork Valley

By | 05.02.12 | 12:54 pm

The Bureau of Land Management is deferring all parcels associated with the August oil and gas lease sale in the North Fork Valley.

‘Flexibility’ the hallmark of preferred, controversial Colorado roadless rule

By | 05.02.12 | 12:21 pm

The preferred plan to manage 4.2 million acres of roadless forests in Colorado will allow for more flexibility than the national rule. That additional flexibility will allow local communities to protect themselves from wildfires, ski areas to expand and coal mining companies to construct venting for methane in the North Fork Valley.

VIDEO: Fox News focuses on potential layoffs in Colorado if wind tax credit expires

By | 05.01.12 | 4:12 pm

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., went on Fox News today to once again advocate for the extension of the wind production tax credit.

Aspen, Carbondale ban plastic bags at main grocery stores, promote reusable alternatives

By | 05.01.12 | 12:02 pm

The main food markets in Aspen and Carbondale have stopped bagging groceries in plastic.

Senators bundle House bills into WEST Act to expedite energy exploration, weaken EPA

By | 05.01.12 | 10:30 am

Some the most anti-environmental legislation to pass the House has been bundled together into an omnibus bill in the Senate called the Western Economic Security Today (WEST) Act.

Watchdog group slams Tipton, Lamborn and Coffman as ‘stooges’ for oil, gas industries

By | 04.30.12 | 10:46 am

A trio of bills designed to invigorate drilling on public lands has a watchdog group casting U.S. Reps. Scott Tipton, Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman as “the Three Stooges for the oil and gas industry.”