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Tag: Oil And Gas Drilling
Coffman, Colorado GOP clamor for environmental protection after blasting Salazar for...
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s scathing attack on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday at a House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sounded a little like a jewel thief berating the cops for not catching him sooner.
Sportsmen to run ad challenging Salazar to be the next Teddy...
In a print ad set to run in the Denver Post Thursday, a coalition of hunters and anglers called “Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development...
Former federal, state officials ask Salazar to step up energy reforms
A group of 60 former state and federal regulators who previously oversaw energy extraction on public lands fired off a letter to Secretary of...
Independent’s Williams appears tonight on PBS’s ‘Colorado State of Mind’
Colorado Independent reporter David O. Williams, who covers energy and environmental issues on the state’s Western Slope, appears tonight at 7:30 on the Rocky...
McInnis money trail leads to 1990s mountain resort, real estate deals
During his first few years in Congress representing the sprawling 3rd Congressional District on Colorado’s Western Slope, Republican Scott McInnis was a strong voice...
Gas-patch politicians ask Salazar to ease up on industry even as...
Monday, just a couple of days after running a story in which more than 90 county commissioners and other elected officials from around the...
Western Tradition Partnership targets Salazar on alleged monument memo
Western Tradition Partnership (WTP), a conservative nonprofit with its political fingers in everything from energy production to commercial development by mega-churches, is now reportedly...
Antero CEO decries activism even as two GarCo methane seeps revealed
Even as one oil and gas company, Antero, railed against community activists with the audacity to push for responsible drilling practices in and around...
Western Slope oil and gas industry balks at EPA greenhouse gas...
Oil and gas officials on Colorado’s Western Slope this week were predictably critical of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to expand its controversial...
EPA to study hydraulic fracturing, but calls for FRAC Act continue
Backers of the controversial FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, including co-sponsor Diana DeGette (D-Denver), were quick to caution Thursday that a...