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Posts Tagged Drilling

Aspen Ideas Fest audience decides natural gas boom doing more harm than good

By | 07.03.12 | 1:56 pm

ASPEN — After an Oxford-style debate Sunday night, environmental attorneys Deborah Goldberg and Katherine Hudson convinced 15 percent of the audience here to change their minds about hydraulic fracturing. Before the debate, only 38 percent of the audience agreed that the detriments of hydraulic fracturing are greater than its benefits but afterward, 53 percent agreed fracking does more harm than good.

North Fork Valley federal lawsuit seeks end to secret oil, gas land nomination process

By | 06.28.12 | 7:33 am

The Citizens for a Healthy Community and Western Environmental Law Center’s suit aims to upend the Bureau of Land Management’s practice of keeping nominators’ names secret until after a lease is sold.

Judge sends BLM back to drawing board to consider Roan Plateau drilling alternatives

By | 06.26.12 | 2:51 pm

A federal judge ruled Friday that a Bush-era auction of gas leases on the Roan Plateau failed to adequately address its environmental impacts or entertain alternative, less-intrusive drilling plans.

House passes sweeping energy package brought to you by Colorado Republicans

By | 06.21.12 | 3:35 pm

The U.S. House passed a sweeping energy package Thursday that Alison Gannett, a farmer in the North Fork Valley, said puts “oil and gas companies first and Coloradans last.”

With fracking creeping toward schools, candidates drill down their positions

By | 06.15.12 | 6:19 am

As concerns mount over oil and gas rigs inching closer to several Colorado schools, legislators are looking toward 2013 to sort out whether local controls should take a backseat to state regulations.

Colorado kids to Encana: Don’t frack our schools

By | 06.04.12 | 9:47 am

ERIE — With black whiskers painted across her cheeks, 6-year-old Olivia Cusimano roared into the plastic megaphone as if hers were the voice of the blue knotted-up balloon tiger she clutched beneath her left arm.

Obama administration challenges oil, gas companies to drill already leased lands

By | 05.16.12 | 10:46 am

Oil and gas companies are tapping only about 28 percent of federal offshore sea floor they have leased and 56 percent of the onshore land they’ve leased is also sitting idle, the Interior Department said Tuesday.

Opponents to Koch land swap say proposed gas project compromises trail easements

By | 05.10.12 | 2:43 pm

Billionaire businessman Bill Koch organized a tour last fall for western Colorado residents to survey property he is offering in a multifaceted land swap that requires an act of Congress to complete. But he forgot to mention the potential for drilling.

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.

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.

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