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Penry-passed pit-liner bill to protect groundwater upheld by Denver judge
A bill mandating stricter handling of oil and gas brine that was passed in 2008 by strange bedfellows Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, in the state Senate and Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, in the House was upheld by a Denver District Court judge Tuesday, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
New York report blasts gas industry as GarCo weighs FRAC Act resolution
Even as the Garfield County commissioners today take up debate on a resolution regarding the FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, an environmental researcher in New York released a damning report on the natural gas industry in that state.
McInnis praises gas-happy Pa. despite increasing chemical contamination
Former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, a six-time Republican congressman representing Colorado’s Western Slope, would like to turn the state’s prime mountain playgrounds into something more closely resembling the industrialized environs of Pennsylvania.
At least that’s our interpretation of a Grand Junction Daily Sentinel story in which McInnis praises the “drill, baby, drill” policies of Democratic Pennsylvania [...]
Report: gas industry execs starting to see the light on chemical disclosure
The oil and gas industry is starting to see some cracks in its to-date united front against federal oversight of the common drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to ProPublica and other media sources.
A pair of gas-industry executives back East recently admitted that disclosure of the chemicals added to water and sand [...]
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