Gale Norton

U.S. Senate hopeful Tom Wiens told Politico that GOP rival Jane Norton is doing well in polls here mostly just because there are so many Nortons in GOP politics.
“When people here think Norton, they may be picking the wrong one. It’s a familiar name,” Wiens said. “I would imagine that when they’re asked, I [...]

Who made Colorado Ethics Watch Top Five ethics scandals list of 2009? Gubernatorial GOP frontrunner Scott McInnis, for one, who gets listed for the behind-the-scenes likely illegal pre-campaign campaigning he did to set up his run. Also find Colorado State University, which made the list for its decision to hand the newly created position [...]

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday called on his department’s inspector general to investigate so-called midnight oil shale leasing regulations issued in the waning days of the Bush administration. “We want to avoid the booms and busts of the past,” said Salazar, a former U.S. senator from Colorado, referring to a devastating oil shale bust on the Western Slope in the 1980s. “We want to ensure the potential development is done in a way that is environmentally appropriate.”

The Los Angeles Times continues to follow the e-mail trail in the 11th-hour Bush administration bid to lock in low royalty rates for highly speculative, as-yet-unproven oil shale production in the Green River Formation of northwest Colorado, eastern Utah and southwest Wyoming.

Even as Gov. Bill Ritter was touting Colorado’s “New Energy Economy” at the 5th annual Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas-USA conference in Denver Tuesday evening, he was being blasted from the right for his gas-guzzling aeronautical habits and failure to promote the state’s oil shale production.

A Colorado U.S. District Court judge has granted an extension until Nov. 16 for federal government attorneys trying to reach a settlement with environmental groups over midnight rule making by the Bush administration for oil shale leasing on the Western Slope.
A coalition of environmental groups including the Center for Biological Diversity, Colorado Environmental Coalition and [...]

Former Colorado attorney general and Bush administration Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton is being investigated by the Justice Department for allegedly brokering a deal with Royal Dutch Shell to provide the oil company with potentially lucrative oil shale leases in Colorado in exchange for a job.