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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.”

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.

Watchdog group rebukes Congressman Tipton over financial ties to oil, natural gas

By | 04.23.12 | 8:49 am

A campaign reform group skewered U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton on Thursday for continuing to rake in big bucks from special interest groups and voting for oil and gas projects that could financially benefit him.

Santorum and Gingrich dismiss climate change, vow to dismantle the EPA

By | 02.06.12 | 5:30 pm

GOLDEN — A day before Republicans voice their presidential preferences in Colorado caucuses, Rick Santorum dismissed climate change as “a hoax” and advocated an energy plan heavy on fossil fuels.

Colorado senators applaud BLM proposal to rein in oil shale leasing in American West

By | 02.03.12 | 2:25 pm

The Bureau of Land Management proposed a sharp cut Friday in the acreage available for oil shale and tar sands leasing in the West, including a 90 percent reduction of potential land in Colorado.

Gubernatorial candidates address conservation issues

By | 10.06.10 | 8:00 am

Several conservation, sportsmen and wildlife groups in Colorado asked the state’s three gubernatorial candidates, Democrat John Hickenlooper, Republican Dan Maes and American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo, nine questions covering a number of issues specifically relating to the economy, wildlife,…

Climate change energy legislation: The new death panel

By | 06.11.10 | 11:44 am

Georgia U.S. Rep. Paul Broun is a doctor and an over-the-top Congressional rhetorician. He likened the effort to reform health care to the effort to free the salves– and that was a comparison meant to suggest the effort was…

Big Oil makes a comeback in Iraq

By | 06.24.09 | 2:25 pm

Add this news to the numerous reasons oil exploration and production are down on the Western Slope. From Slate.com’s The Big Money:

“A welcome-back party for Big Oil” is how the Wall Street Journal today sums up the Iraqi government plan to open up its oil fields to the highest bidders after three decades of tight control under Saddam Hussein. Starting next week, the Iraqi government will begin auctioning off contracts to foreign countries, opening up a market with 115 billion barrels in “proven reserves.” “If all goes according to plan in the first round, foreign oil companies will move in to help Iraq revive production at six developed fields that have suffered from years of war and neglect,” the newspaper writes.

Big Agriculture, rural Dems further dilute energy bill

By | 06.24.09 | 12:50 pm

House lawmakers announced a deal last night on their sweeping proposal to tackle climate change, but not before the bill’s sponsors were forced to bow once more to a polluting industry that would be affected by the proposal.

Fear of Rio Blanco-style energy impact fees colored Garfield County election

By | 06.24.09 | 6:45 am

Two Democrats who lost out in a nasty election for the Garfield County board of commissioners last year say the main reason they were targeted by the oil and gas industry was something that happened earlier in 2008 in neighboring Rio Blanco County.