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Posts Tagged Natural Gas

The retirement community of Battlement Mesa is the subject of a massive natural gas drilling plan.

NYC law firm that handled World Trade Center case eyes natural gas drilling in Garfield County

By | 02.08.11 | 5:06 am

Residents of Garfield County neighborhoods impacted by natural gas drilling have been approached by a New York City firm that last year landed a $712.5 million settlement for workers injured in the World Trade Center cleanup. A representative of Napoli Bern Ripka LLP will attend a meeting of potential plaintiffs Feb. 22 at the Glenwood Springs Community Center, according to an activist group fighting to mitigate drilling impacts. Also on hand will be attorneys from the Aspen law firm of Thomas Genshaft PC.

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DeGette, Polis ‘fracking’-disclosure camp up against big-money opponents in Congress

By | 01.14.11 | 4:10 pm

Colorado Democratic U.S. Reps Diana DeGette and Jared Polis are leading supporters of a move to force natural-gas drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use to blast gas out of the ground in an increasingly controversial process called “fracking.” The two lawmakers were joined Thursday by 46 members of Congress in sending a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to back a proposal in which the Interior Department would require disclosure of all materials used in fracking operations conducted on public lands. The DeGette and Polis bloc faces strong opposition in Congress and, turns out, their main opponents are pulling down large donations from oil and gas companies.

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Heated coal vs. gas battle comes to a head with key PUC decision

By | 12.10.10 | 6:34 am

Both Xcel Energy and environmental groups cautiously praised Thursday’s unanimous decision by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to convert the Cherokee 4 coal-fired power plant unit to natural gas. But both sides are clearly still concerned about the details in the plan.

Harkin pushes hard for biofuels in electric, natural gas vehicle bill

By | 11.16.10 | 6:22 am

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), in a floor speech Monday, called for expanding electric and natural gas vehicles legislation slated to come up for a procedural vote during the lame-duck session to encourage the use of ethanol. While he said he…

Natural gas now a major player in any federal energy bill

By | 11.12.10 | 7:59 am

Less than two hours after President Obama suggested in a post-midterm press conference that Republicans and Democrats could find common ground on proposals to develop the country’s natural gas resources, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune underscored environmentalists’ love-hate relationship with the fossil fuel. He said gas, abundantly available in Colorado, isn’t he cleanest form of energy — but it’s a lot cleaner than coal.

Railing against ‘stealth’ carbon tax, Carroll makes no mention of subsidies

By | 11.10.10 | 10:37 am

Conservative Denver Post columnist Vince Carroll Wednesday underlined a move by new state House GOP leadership to do away with the energy part of the House Transportation and Energy Committee, a move meant to signal a priority shift away…

Coal, gas clash has House race smoldering on Western Slope

By | 08.16.10 | 1:47 am

The political ramifications of Gov. Bill Ritter’s “New Energy Economy” are likely to energize at least one state House race on the Western Slope, where coal mining and natural gas production are now at odds over the governor’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act. In the south, sprawling House District 61 includes heavy coal mining along the North Fork of the Gunnison River, and in the north the district includes the eastern reaches of Garfield County’s mega gas patch.

Xcel files plan to cut 900 megawatts of coal-fired electrical power

By | 08.13.10 | 5:37 pm

Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electric power utility, today filed a plan with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission that will ensure the Minneapolis-based company complies with the new Clean Air Clean Jobs Act aimed at drastically reducing coal-fired power plant emissions.

State’s oil and gas pipeline capacity rising along with scrutiny

By | 08.03.10 | 8:49 am

A lack of natural gas pipeline capacity has long been cited as one of the reasons Colorado is less competitive with other states in pricing its gas for markets, but the completion of the Rocky Mountain Express last…

Vail snubbed by DOE in bid to build biomass power plant

By | 07.05.10 | 12:56 pm

In the end, it may not be NIMBYism or environmentalist objections to producing power by burning trees that dooms Vail’s proposed biomass power plant. It may just be a simple lack of funding.

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