All Posts Tagged With: "Moffat County"

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BLM Plan for Northwestern Colorado Has Critics

Representatives of the oil and gas industry say it places way too much land off limits for energy development; while environmentalists lament 90 percent of the resource area that will be opened to oil and gas drilling.

19Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Western Slope UPDATES

>> Holy Cross May Tap Methane Gas From Mines
>> Solar Battle Brews at Garfield County Airport
>> Garfield County Wants Antero, Critics to Compromise
>> Oil and Gas Permitting Drops in Moffat County

4Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Colorado Coal Counties Struggle to Deal With Xcel Plan

In places like Moffat County, which is home to four mines, the concern is everywhere. “Those are significant dollars to our economy,” Moffat County Commissioner Audrey Danner told KUNC reporter, Kirk Siegler.

8Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Proposal Would Keep Vermillion Basin Off Limits to Energy Development

The proposed management plan announced yesterday by the Agency is intended to protect 242,000 acres in the basin from oil and gas development. Offering an opposing view was a Moffat County commissioner who said the move could cost the state jobs and revenues.

30Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Task Force to Target Carbon Capture
and Sequestration

The move is intended to help address the cmplex legal, regulatory and policy issues surrounding CO2 capture and sequestration if Colorado’s coal industry is going to succeed in a carbon-constrained economy, said a state official.

11Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Moffat County Funding Methane Research

Concerned about the issues surrounding coal-bed methane extraction in the San Juan, Raton and Piceance basins, the County recently approved signing a grant contract with the Colorado Water Conservation Board to survey local groundwater and aquifer conditions.

21Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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