Post Tagged with: "Colorado"
Colorado Energy Bill Passes First Committee Hearing, Next Up: Finance Committee
Fast-tracked energy bill that would overhaul oil and gas regulation/development in Colorado passes first senate committee hearing only two days after being introduced
Lawmakers hold 12-hour hearing on bill updating regulation of oil, gas industry and okay it 4-3
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Colorado Legislators Unveil Sweeping Oil and Gas Regulatory Changes
From Denver Business Journal
Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic legislative leaders rolled out the long-awaited framework Thursday of a bill to increase regulations around oil and gas wells, confirming previous statements about their plans to change the mission and guiding …
Drilling-Frozen Erie, Colo. tells Anadarko Petroleum: Go Ahead, Drill Your 23 Wells, We Want the Tax Revenue to Build Infrastructure
From the Denver Business Journal
Even a local government with a moratorium on oil and gas drilling can support new wells when doing so helps its long-term economic development goals.
Anadarko — Colorado’s largest oil-and-gas producer — and the northern …
Colorado Natural Resources Chief Stepping Down, Gov. Polis to Appoint DNR Chief
From Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
The man who oversees oil and gas, water, wildlife, mining and other natural resource management in Colorado will be leaving his job along with his boss in January.
Bob Randall, executive director of the Colorado …
Colo. Gov. Hickenlooper Won’t Rule Out Calling Special Session if 112 Passes: ‘That’s How You Spell Recession’
From Denver CBS4
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper isn’t ruling out calling a special legislative session if a statewide anti-fracking ballot measure passes next week.
Proposition 112 may be the most controversial measure on the ballot this year. The Colorado Oil …
U.S.’s Oldest Independent Coal Producer Files Bankruptcy
From Power Magazine
Colorado-based Westmoreland Coal Co. on October 9 said it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with the company reporting more than $1.4 billion in debt. The company in its annual financial report in April of this year …
One month from Election Day, Colorado’s Weld County Voters Consider Setbacks
If 112 passes, Colorado’s oilfield service jobs will disappear
From the Greeley Tribune
Residents on both sides of a statewide ballot measure that would increase the distance between oil and gas wells and homes, schools and bodies of water to …
Will 100,000 Phone Calls Be Able to Stop Oil and Gas Companies from Drilling in Colorado?
It’s shaping up to be the power of advertising vs. the power of personal phone calls.
At least that’s what the two opposing forces are doing to promote their polar opposite views of Proposition 112 as voters begin to think …
Colorado’s Damaging Setbacks: Six Weeks Will Tell the Tale
Upcoming TV debate showcases thinking on both sides of the setback issue
There is a storm cloud of potential upheaval facing Colorado’s oil and gas regulator (the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission—COGCC) this fall. On the leading edge is …
Can Extraction Oil and Gas Make Fracing Fit the Suburbs?
From the Denver Business Journal
A drilling agreement reached this month between Extraction Oil and Gas and the city of Broomfield details plans for 84 new oil and gas wells.
It took the Denver-based company more than two years to …
