All Posts Tagged With: "Western Slope"

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In the Field: Colorado Acrylic Manufacturer Goes Solar

The 100 kilowatt photovoltaic system ties into the traditional power grid. All solar power generated gets distributed throughout the building with any surplus solar polar sold
back to the power company. It’s a win-win for Reynolds Polymer Technology, Inc.

2May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coal Extraction Poses Climate Challenge for Obama Administration

Since taking office nearly three years ago, it has restricted coal-mining waste from being dumped into streams and imposed new pollution controls on coal-fired power plants. But on the fundamental question of whether the government should halt federal leasing, Obama’s answer has been: not yet.

26Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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REGIONAL NEWS — Garfield County Supports BLM Plan
on Oil Shale

The revised BLM plan would cut 421 square miles from the proposed 3,125 square miles allocated for possible oil shale development in the three states. The biggest area removed would be the 182-square-mile Adobe Town area in Wyoming.

27Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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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Encana Selling West Slope Assets for $590 Million

Spokesman Doug Hock told Colorado Energy News that his company has “utilized this strategy elsewhere–including here on the Front Range, where we sold our midstream assets in Weld County a few months ago. It allows us to strengthen our balance sheet and free up capital for further exploration and production–our core competency.”

13Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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House Panel OKs Industry-Friendly Changes to Colorado
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

HB-1223 would add two members from the gas and oil industry to the nine-person commission. The COGCC used
to have seven members, with five from the energy industry, before former Governor Ritter led a change in 2007 to give more representation to environmental stakeholders.

6Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Hickenlooper Supports Fracking But Wants
Fluids Disclosure

During an economic tour of Glenwood Springs, the one-time geologist defended the use of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas development in Colorado but renewed his call for companies to disclose the substances in the fluids used in the process.

1Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Raising the Stakes: Ground Zero Law Firm Sues Over Colorado Drilling

A New York law firm that won a major settlement for World Trade Center rescue workers is representing residents of Colorado’s Western Slope who say their health has been impacted by the boom in oil and gas operations in the region. Last week they filed their first lawsuit.

29Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Will Colorado’s Latest Energy Boom Skip
Western Slope?

BJ Services said last month it is moving two hydraulic-fracturing crews to other fields, and a major Piceance Basin player, Exxon Mobil, said the company has “reduced our drilling tempo at Piceance, due to the business environment.”

11Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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API Backs Voluntarily Plan to Disclose
Fracking Ingredients

Industry leaders have been trying to fend off proposals for federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing and wage a PR battle against environmentalists who say the well-completion technique is risky. The Interior Department also is considering disclosure requirements for natural gas wells drilled on public lands.

16Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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West Slope News — SourceGas Customers Rates to Drop

SourceGas announced that customers in its Western Slope service area will see a net decrease of approximately 16 percent for a typical residential and commercial peak winter month bill. The reduction is the result of two filings recently approved by the Colorado PUC.

9Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil and Gas Wells Under New Colorado
Water Policies

Before last year, the state did not administer water produced by coal-bed methane wells. The water in question is groundwater commonly found along the seams of coal from which methane gas is extracted. In the Arkansas River basin, for example, there are hundreds of wells located in Las Animas and Huerfano counties.

5Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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