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Key meetings set on Battlement Mesa, Rulison and Divide Creek drilling

By | 07.06.09 | 8:23 am

A series of key state and county meetings on a variety of controversial natural-gas drilling issues will take place this week and next in Garfield County, the epicenter of an energy boom on the Western Slope for most of the…

Rio Blanco and Garfield counties:
A tale of two nuclear gas blasts

By | 07.01.09 | 10:56 am

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, four nuclear devices were exploded underground on Colorado’s Western Slope in an effort to free up commercially marketable amounts of natural gas from dense sandstone formations.

Anatomy of a ‘stolen election’: Ex-Garfield County judge still seething

By | 06.23.09 | 12:41 pm

It’s been nearly eight months since former Garfield County Judge Steve Carter says he was ambushed by oil and gas money in his unsuccessful bid for county commissioner, but the Democrat is clearly still seething about what he considers a “stolen election.”

Glenwood ‘regs rally’ to back more stringent rules for oil, gas drilling

By | 02.24.09 | 6:02 pm

Garfield County, the so-called “ground zero” of the late, great oil and gas boom, will be the scene of a rally in support of the more stringent drilling regulations currently being debated in the Statehouse in Denver.

Todd Palin to pal around with sportsmen today in Colorado

By | 10.21.08 | 11:54 am

Alaska’s “First Dude,” as the media has dubbed Todd Palin, will be out to prove he isn’t the “First Dud” today as he follows in his governor and Republican vice presidential nominee wife Sarah Palin’s footsteps on the campaign stump in Colorado.

Tourists, Energy Workers Vie for Motel Rooms

By | 01.26.08 | 8:00 am

PhotobucketThe oil-and-gas boom in northwest Colorado has attracted thousands of workers causing a high demand for housing. With no other place to stay, energy workers are swarming into local motels. This might benefit the hotel industry, but have “no vacancy”