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>> Front Range Setting for Fracking Fight
>> Did Arapahoe County Take Right Path on Gas, Oil?
>> Boulder County Will Try Phasing in Drilling
>> Fort Collins Relaxes Fracking Ban for Only Operator
The Calm Before the Solar Storm
How do we know solar has officially arrived? Some major electricity players are aggressively moving into the distributed solar market. NRG Energy, whose core business model has been based on providing central thermal power to distribution utilities, is now shifting gears to start offering solar and natural gas combinations direct to consumers.
23May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Survey: Global Warming, Clean Energy Should be Priorities
Six in 10 Americans want the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions regardless of other countries’ emissions efforts, according to the survey. Only 6% say the U.S. should not reduce its greenhouse emissions. The study also shows only half of Americans have heard of the Keystone XL pipeline. Among those who have heard of the pipeline, 63% support the project.
23May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Beats Five Southwest States in Support of Electric Vehicles
The state legislature passed six different bills supporting electric vehicles in the 2013 session, boosting the state to an A- ranking in a report card comparison of six southwestern states’ government policies designed to push the cars from showrooms to roads.
21May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Interior Issues New Drilling Rule on Public Land
Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, the Obama administration said. But environmental groups are already labeling the new proposal weaker than last year’s plan.
20May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
500 Kilowatt Solar Project in Boulder Completed
The Boulder Cowdery Meadows Solar Array is the first community solar project completed under Xcel Energy’s Solar*Rewards Community program, under which any utility ratepayer can directly purchase energy from a “solar garden” and immediately save money on monthly electricity bills.
17May2013 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedColorado Renewable Energy Bill Gets Call for Veto From GOP Lawmakers
Senate Bill 252, which passed May 1, requires the state’s rural-based nonprofit energy cooperatives to increase the amount of renewable energy offered to 20 percent by 2020 — an unfair burden on the state’s rural communities, say opponents. Hickenlooper is still reviewing the legislation.
14May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Regional Update: “Orphaned” Oil and Gas Wells on the Rise
in Wyoming
There are some 1,200 “orphaned” wells in Wyoming that have not been properly plugged and reclaimed, creating potential risks to the environment and human health, according to Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission data.
10May2013 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Colorado Springs Group Sues to Allow Vote on Fracking Ban
A citizens group said Thursday that it has sued the city of Colorado Springs in an effort to move forward a petition to amend the City Charter to ban oil and gas drilling in the city.
10May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas Has Dismal First Quarter
Most illustrative of its continued slump: Vestas didn’t deliver a single machine to a U.S. wind farm during first quarter of this year, according to the company’s financial report.
9May2013 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSponsor Pulls Higher Oil and Gas Fines Bill
House Bill 1267 was killed Wednesday by the lawmaker who first proposed it. Democratic Rep. Mike Foote of Lafayette decided to drop the proposal rather than pass a version that does not include minimum fines on significant spills, as the state Senate had insisted.
9May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
CSU Database Tracks Energy Legislation Nationwide
This first-of-its-kind resource, created in partnership with the Advanced Energy Economy, will also enable the University’s Center for the New Energy Economy to conduct analysis of trends in state energy legislation.
8May2013 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedHickenlooper Gets Dems to Flip, Kills Two Bills to Regulate Oil and Gas
It’s been known for weeks that House Bill 1316, which would require oil and gas companies in the Greater Wattenburg Area to abide by the same groundwater testing regimes as the rest of the state, didn’t have much of a chance to pass the Senate.
8May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Oil/Gas Industry: Trust us! We care, we really do. The rest of the us: No! 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...
Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...