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Gas drilling at the entrance to Battlement Mesa in Garfield County (David O. Williams photo).

Colorado gas activists point to old West Virginia fracking case as ‘smoking gun’

By | 08.05.11 | 3:44 pm

Anti-gas-drilling activists in Colorado are pointing to a 1984 case in West Virginia as the smoking gun proving the industry and government agencies that regulate it have been lying all along about hydraulic fracturing contaminating groundwater supplies.

Green investors target financial risks of hydraulic fracturing of gas wells

By | 01.26.10 | 3:18 pm

Green investment groups representing shareholders in the cleaner-than-coal natural gas industry are pressuring the nation’s major drilling companies to come clean on the process of hydraulic fracturing, which is the subject of a controversial bill introduced last summer by Colorado…

Udall co-sponsoring bill to at last reform 1872 mining law

By | 11.25.09 | 10:02 am

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall has taken a careful look at mining reform proposals and has announced that he is co-sponsoring the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009, a Senate bill sponsored by New Mexico Democrat Jeff Bingaman.