All Posts Tagged With: "Front Range"
Boulder County Votes to Place Temporary Moratorium on Drilling
The public will be able to comment March 1, according to the county’s website, “on the local impacts associated with oil and gas development, and on the appropriateness of continuing or amending the temporary moratorium.”
3Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Web Tool to Aid Layperson Understanding
of Niobrara Drilling
A new web-based tool developed by the Colorado Geological Survey is designed to provide the public with a better understanding and visualization of geologic conditions that separate groundwater supplies from the energy-bearing Niobrara Formation in the Denver Basin.
26Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
BLM Agrees to More Air Quality Studies on Gas Drilling Along the Front Range
The agreement came as part of a court-ordered settlement of a lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians, which challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s 2009 decision to issue 12 oil and gas leases covering 3,680 acres in Weld and Morgan Counties north of Denver.
20Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
British Energy Company Buys Stake in Niobrara
In another indication that Colorado’s Niobrara is attracting global interest, London-based Nighthawk is increasing its focus in U.S. shale plays with the announcement that it is acquiring an additional 25% interest in the Jolly Ranch project
in the DJ Basin. The seller is Running Foxes Petroleum.
Commerce City Puts Fracking Decision on Hold
The council has taken a 30-day “timeout” from its review of whether it should ban hydraulic fracturing for six months. It wants to hear from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission as well as from industry representatives before it makes a decision on what to do longterm.
21Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Lawmakers Wants Bill to Inform Homeowners
of Mineral Rights
Republican Rep. Marsha Looper of Calhan in rural El Paso County wants to end such scenarios. She is introducing a bill requiring home sellers to tell prospective buyers who owns those mineral rights.
8Dec2011 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
Resource Alert — The DOE’s Wind Resources Map for Colorado
An area of excellent-to-outstanding resource is located along the Wyoming border north of Fort Collins. The exposed ridge crests of the Front Range, the Continental Divide, and in western Colorado also possess good-to-outstanding wind resource.
6Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Oil Pollutants Seeping Into Metro Denver
Water Supply
Western Resource Advocates, a nonprofit environmental law and policy organization, argues the Suncor leak into the South Platte River is just the most recent example of why strong regulations and oversight procedures are needed before widespread oil drilling begins near heavily-populated areas along the Front Range.
30Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Friday Briefings
Real Goods Solar Inc., of Boulder, is teaming with Alteris Renewables Inc., a Wilton, Conn.-based renewable energy systems company to form a solar integration firm that will do business in multiple states. And Colorado Springs’ lagging clean energy sector may get a boost from a New Mexico company.
24Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Beyond the Suds … Merrick & Company Converts
Brewing Residuals Into Biofuels
By converting the MillerCoors waste stream into profitable fuel-grade ethanol, three million gallons are produced each year. The fuel is then pumped into trucks for delivery to filling stations across the Front Range.
16May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
TRACKING Front Range Developments —
Weld and Larimer Counties: Growing Cleantech Interest
Louisville: Group Withdraws Opposition to Solar Gardens Bill
Pueblo: Xcel Energy Addresses Commanche Plant Noise
Chaffee County: Geothermal Becomes an Issue
Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act Generating
Widespread Support
“Republicans and Democrats, power companies and energy producers, doctors and conservationists all have worked together to craft this smart, clean air solution for Colorado,” said Vickie Patton, a senior clean air attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund.
22Mar2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Governor Urges Lawmakers to Back
Coal Plant Measure
Momentum for House Bill 1365 continued this week as the House Transportation and Energy Committee voted 10-1 to endorse the measure, after Gov. Ritter encouraged members to back a framework for retiring or retrofitting coal-fired power plants along the Front Range, which is called for in the proposed legislation.
22Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Markey Proposes Renewables Energy Tax
Credit for Utilities
“There are substantial costs for integrating renewable energy,” the Congresswoman said. “This bill will relieve the burden faced by utilities bringing intermittent renewable energy like wind and solar online, and help bring down the cost of clean energy production.”
23Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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There is already a rule on the books that requires title disclosure for severed mineral rights.
It was done in ...