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Tag: hydraulic fracturing
Hickenlooper calls on oil and gas industry to disclose fracking chemicals
Denver Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper Tuesday called on oil and gas companies to disclose the chemical formulas being used in the drilling process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Speaking at a Denver Petroleum Club forum Tuesday, the former geologist turned restaurant mogul took a definitive stance on the controversial process, which is used to increase production in the majority of natural gas wells drilled in Colorado.
‘Gasland,’ showing on HBO tonight, skewers Colorado’s natural gas industry
Filmmaker Josh Fox was living in northeastern Pennsylvania above the massive Marcellus Shale natural gas play when he decided to make “Gasland,” a documentary...
Udall, Shaheen introduce companion oil spill prevention, cleanup bills
Colorado Sen. Mark Udall and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Thursday introduced a pair of bills that would mandate the use of federal oil and...
In shadow of offshore disaster, growing concern over onshore drilling
The worsening Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be grabbing all the headlines lately, but several much smaller incidents in Colorado and neighboring states are...
DeGette ‘fracking’ amendment doesn’t fly; ExxonMobil shareholders vote
Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette’s bid to get full public disclosure of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells was withdrawn...
DeGette to float ‘fracking’ amendment to Safe Drinking Water Act legislation
Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette Wednesday will introduce an amendment calling for full disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids to a bill introduced earlier this month...
Major gas-producing states debating Colorado-style drilling regulations
From Texas to Wyoming to Pennsylvania, a gusher of environmental rules is facing the natural gas industry in the coming months and years, putting Colorado ahead of the regulatory curve when it implemented strict new drilling regs in the spring of 2009, according to the state’s top oil and gas official.
Green shareholders push Williams, Exxon to clear air on hydraulic fracturing
Green investor groups are pushing some of the nation’s largest natural gas drilling companies to come clean on hydraulic fracturing, a process that injects...
Green investment groups urge EPA to fill information gap on fracking...
Green investors Wednesday weighed in on recently announced EPA plans to study the increasingly popular but controversial process of hydraulic fracturing of natural gas...
Enthusiasm for a Weld County oil and gas boom tempered by...
Weld County on Colorado’s northern Front Range is on the verge of another major oil and gas drilling boom, according to the Greeley Tribune,...