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DeGette: less wheels in wilderness, more around ski areas

By | 08.02.10 | 2:48 pm

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, will be in Glenwood Springs Tuesday morning for a special meeting of the Garfield County commissioners in which she’ll try to muster support for her version of wilderness legislation that she’s been trying to…

Figure in McInnis plagiarism case says ‘Scott’s responsible’

By | 07.13.10 | 10:39 pm

Rolly Fischer, the man Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis says is responsible for plagiarizing water papers written by Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory J. Hobbs, told the Glenwood Springs Post Independent Tuesday that “Scott’s responsible for it.”

That was…

Curry courts unaffiliated voters in high-profile write-in campaign

By | 06.25.10 | 1:41 pm

Kathleen Curry, a three-term state representative from Gunnison, hopes to spark an independent revolution on Colorado’s Western Slope with her write-in candidacy for House District 61 in November.

Drilling regs fading as campaign issue in gov’s race, as industry eyes uptick

By | 04.05.10 | 2:18 pm

The Denver Post over the weekend formally put a fork in the acrimony over tough natural gas drilling regulations, declaring it a non-issue on the gubernatorial campaign trail compared to just a few months ago.

Biomass power production takes step back in N.M., forward in Colorado

By | 03.25.10 | 9:47 am

One of the potential silver linings in the dark cloud of the ongoing mountain pine bark beetle epidemic – which has ravaged more then 2 million acres of lodgepole pine trees in Colorado and Wyoming – is the possibility of…

GarCo board plays drilling-rules roulette; Houpt weighs run for Curry seat

By | 01.20.10 | 8:26 am

Colorado oil and gas industry officials continue to fall back on new state drilling regulations to fend off more county or federal scrutiny, even as their trade association challenges the Colorado rules in court. The irony appears lost on the…

Water expert: Snowpack dangerously close to drought levels

By | 01.19.10 | 8:52 am

Badly needed snowfall is expected in Colorado’s high country this week, but one expert says the state will need much more than the amount in the forecast to stave off drought on par with the one that marked the parched…

GAO rips BLM for sidestepping NEPA on oil and gas leases

By | 09.16.09 | 3:45 pm

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 rather famously – or infamously, depending on your point of view – allowed for a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for the Haliburton-perfected process of hydraulic fracturing in of natural gas wells.

Obama school speech flap continues in Roaring Fork Valley

By | 09.10.09 | 5:31 pm

The Obama education speech faux-controversy controversy is now at least one Obama speech controversy in the past, for most of the country anyway. Not so in Colorado’s Roaring Fork school District, which appears to be one of the few, if…

Feds accused of playing ‘Rulison Roulette’ by drilling near nuclear blast site

By | 07.16.09 | 8:13 am

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Marion Wells lives about 10 miles from “ground zero” in Garfield County, the Project Rulison blast site where a 43-kiloton nuclear device was exploded nearly 8,500 feet underground in 1969 in an effort to free up commercially viable natural gas.