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EPA Tightens Emission Regs for New Wells - But Gives Industry More Time to Comply

The new rules require drillers to capture emissions of certain air pollutants from new wells, but operators have been given more time to comply. The EPA says they can burn pollutants at the well head until the start of 2015.

19Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Longmont Sets a Middle Course on New
Oil and Gas Regs

The town’s City Council this week voted 6-1 to have its draft of oil and gas regulations prepared for an ordinance. The new rules set up both minimum and recommended standards. Companies can obtain faster approval for their drilling permits by adopting all the recommended standards.

19Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Metro Denver EDC Names New Energy Industry Manager

“With his strong background in public policy and energy issues, we are pleased to welcome Scott Prestidge as he fills this key position on our economic development team,” said Tom Clark, CEO of the Metro Denver EDC.

9Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Gunnison County Coal Mine Expansion Gets
Federal Go-Ahead

The lease for 786 acres of federal coal deposits at the Elk Creek Mine, near Somerset, was approved by the Interior Board of Land Appeals, according to a bureau release. WildEarth Guardians and the Sierra Club had challenged the BLM approval for the mind.

28Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Regional Update — Wyoming Groups Sue Over
Fracking Fluids

Since Wyoming adopted regulations that require well operators to disclose identities of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, the Commission has approved some 50 chemical secrecy requests by Halliburton and other service companies.

28Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Op-Ed: Local Sage-Grouse Conservation —
or Just More Regulation?

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been directed by a federal judge to make a final decision on whether to fully list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act by 2015. The implications are weighing heavily on sportsmen, hunters, private landowners, ranchers, energy developers, and other land users across the West.

26Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fracking Front …

According to a Bloomberg News National Poll conducted earlier this month, a majority of Americans favor greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique that has reduced prices for consumers while raising environmental concerns.

23Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama Takes on Anti-Solar Lobby During Nevada Visit

While visiting a solar farm in Boulder City, the President expanded on his “all-of-the-above energy” strategy; one in which solar energy features heavily. He took a tour of Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, the largest solar panel based facility in the country.

22Mar2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Report: Colorado Oil, Gas Regulators ‘Inadequate,’ Not Enforcing Rules

Citing hundreds of spills last year and only five assessed fines, Gwen Lachelt, the director of Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project said, “Right now, the COGCC’s rules, like its mission statement, are just empty words on a page” … a conclusion strongly disputed by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

22Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry Group Responds to Colorado Public Health Study on Air Pollution From Fracking

Energy In Depth says that if you look past the ominous headlines that the study launch generated and examine the range of what it describes as ‘the strange assumptions forming the basis for the report,’ the conclusions are not only rendered fairly predictable, but also flawed.

21Mar2012 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Study Shows Air Emissions Near Fracking Sites May Impact Health

“Our data show that it is important to include air pollution in the national dialogue on natural gas development that has focused largely on water exposures to hydraulic fracturing,” said Lisa McKenzie, Ph.D., MPH, lead author of the study and research associate at the Colorado School of Public Health.

19Mar2012 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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The Merits of Methane Harvesting

A proposal before the Colorado Senate seems like a no-brainer, but environmental groups are inexplicably against it. Energy analyst Randy Udall calculates just 5 megawatts of electricity generated from coal-mine methane emissions would offset more carbon than all the solar so far installed in Colorado as of 2010, at far less cost.

19Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Controversial Hydropower Bill Faces Tougher Task in State Senate

HR 2842 passed by a vote of 265-154 in the House last week. But more legislators in the Democrat-controlled Senate are opposed to language in the bill that exempts small hydropower projects on Bureau of Reclamation property from National Environmental Policy Act review.

12Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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