All Posts Tagged With: "hydraulic fracturing"
Oil and Gas Industry Poll: Longmont’s Drilling Rules Lack Broad Support
Coming one one day before the final Longmont City Council vote on adopting new drilling rules, the phone survey shows 46 percent of respondents supported local regulation of oil and gas, while 42 percent opposed it, a gap just outside the 3.83 percent margin of error.
22May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Agencies Set Public Meetings on
Oil and Gas Development
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission said the meetings will provide information about the regulatory roles of state agencies and existing regulations governing oil and gas development.
8Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Weld County to Offer Free Well Water Testing
for Oil And Gas Activity
While the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission does similar testing for well water contamination, Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway said the availability of the instrument gives residents “another layer of security” as the industry continues to expand in Weld.
2Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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
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
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
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
TRACKING Policy and Regulation News …
>> State’s Air Quality Plan Gets EPA Approval
>> Task Force Starts Work on Oil/Gas Regs
>> Tribe Gains Control of Oil and Gas on Reservation
>> DC Push for Clean Energy Program Extensions
>> Energy Hunt in Pawnee Grassland Gets Attention
Hickenlooper in Houston
Speaking during a press conference yesterday at an energy consulting firm’s annual meeting, Colorado’s Governor offered several comments about oil and gas regulation, a topic that has been consuming many Front Range communities.
8Mar2012 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Boulder: Commissioners Candidates Focus on Fracking
Present regulations “don’t have any strength to them,” said Commissioner Deb Gardner, who voted with fellow board members on Feb. 2 to impose a six-month temporary moratorium on accepting and processing new drilling applications in order to give the county staff time to study
and propose possible revisions to existing rules.
Legislators Reject Bills to Temper Gas Drilling Impact
Two initiatives to temper the impacts of oil and gas drilling in Colorado — requiring a 1,000-foot setback from homes and limiting the use of open fluid pits — were rejected earlier this week by a legislative committee.
9Feb2012 | admin | 1 comment | 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
Water Used in Hydraulic Fracturing a Small Sliver
of State’s Total
Hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas consumed less than a tenth of a percent of water used in Colorado in 2010, according to a new report prepared by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission staff with the help of the state Division of Water Resources.
24Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...