After much debating, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has decided to approve heavier penalties for oil and gas well operators who violate …
The hydraulic fracturing dispute continues in one of the U.S. battleground states
Colorado has played host to numerous standoffs involving hydraulic fracturing and its practices. Even though ballot initiatives were dropped in August, the debate of fracing continues on a …
Two major decisions were made in Colorado state courts in the past 12 months regarding Colorado tax codes that affect many in the oil and gas industry in the state.
The first was made in BP America Co. v. Colorado …
“The economic contributions of the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry totaled $126.5 billion in output in Colorado between 2008 and 2012. In total, the industry supported more than 93,500 jobs in Colorado.”
In a new report by its …
On Oct. 9 and 10, the Colorado Oil & Gas task force, a group of 21 volunteer citizens representing oil and gas companies, environmental groups, and the farming, homebuilding and medical communities (along with attorneys and government officials) held its …
Yesterday, Governor Hickenlooper’s hand-picked Task Force regarding State and Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations met for the first time. The 21 members are people within the Colorado community who represent oil and gas companies, environmental groups, the farming …
With signs outside the United Nations climate summit reading “Keep the Oil in the Ground,” there’s a breath of fresh air from the local scene in Colorado’s most active oil and gas county.
Weld County has some news: A debt-free …
On September 9, 2014, Governor John Hickenlooper appointed 19 members to join a panel led by one oil and gas company president and one environmental activist. The idea is to help guide decisions dedicated to regulating oil and gas development …
Cushing, Oklahoma’s giant crude oil storage hub will be linked to Colorado’s Niobrara/Codell shale oil production upon construction and completion of a new 550-mile pipeline between Weld County Colorado’s Wattenberg field and NGL Energy Partners’ (ticker: NGL) Cushing terminal.
When …
Udall is fighting for a 25% national RES, a carbon tax, wind tax credits, LNG exports and more nuclear.
Gardner wants easier permitting to drill on federal lands and Alaska’s outer shelf, wind tax credits, LNG exports and more nuclear.…
Yesterday, Governor John Hickenlooper announced the members of a statewide task force that will craft recommendations to help minimize land use conflicts that can occur when siting oil and gas facilities near homes, schools, businesses and recreational areas.
“The governor …
In November, voters in the city of Lafayette, Colorado approved Ballot Measure 300, which banned all “oil and gas extraction and related activities” within the Lafayette city limits. Lafayette is at the western edge of the Wattenberg field in the …
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Weld County, Colorado, is home to the Wattenberg Field, where horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing and complex well completion techniques are creating Colorado’s shale boom. …
Two initiatives targeting Colorado’s oil and gas industry are effectively dead as of yesterday, August 4, 2014. The announcement was a somewhat surprising end to a escalating issue spearheaded by two Democratic officials. Popular sentiment among local and national …
If proposition 89 lands on the ballot and passes a statewide vote in the general election on November 4, companies who want to establish operations in Colorado will face a variety of differing rules and a new level of political …
In a ruling Thursday that overturned the city of Longmont’s ban on hydraulic fracture stimulation, a Boulder County, Colorado judge—and the case itself—illustrated the power that Proposition 89 would convey to municipalities and other local governments statewide.
Boulder Judge D.D. …
During his introductory comments on the Noble Energy (ticker: NBL) Q2 earnings call today, Noble Chairman and CEO Charles Davidson said:
“I wanted to spend a couple of minutes discussing the regulatory environment for oil and gas development in …
Note: this is Part Two of a two-part series looking at the rapid pace of oil and gas development in Weld County in 2014. Click here to read Part One: Will Voters Kill Colorado’s Golden Goose?
2013 was a record …
August 4 is the deadline for two citizens’ groups that are attempting to collect the signatures required to land two statewide ballot proposals on the November ballot. If successful, they would give voters the power to inhibit Colorado’s future oil …
A ballot initiative that would have given communities the power to regulate local oil and gas operations was pulled Monday for a lack of supporting signatures, according to a report by the Denver Post Tuesday.
“Initiative 75 would have added …
Public sentiment about hydraulic fracture stimulation (fracing) and other aspects of oil and gas exploration and production in Colorado has generated a lot of sentiment in recent months. A variety of Colorado municipalities want to institute local rules, ballot initiatives …
A change to the way oil and gas pollution is regulated is the next big step for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
CDPHE is moving forward to adopt EPA’s air pollution rules. In 2012, EPA set new …
