Scoring Colorado lawmakers on conservation
Legalize rain barrels. Incentivize energy efficient construction. Grow solar gardens. Block state control of public lands. Uphold renewable-energy mandates. These were just a few of the priorities in...
View ArticleAnti-frackers take to Denver
The national anti-fracking movement came to Denver over the weekend, for four days of education, training and activism against fracking, what some say has grown beyond a climate change problem to a...
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Park Service may strengthen its oil and gas regulation
This story originally appeared on High Country News. For years, the company operating oil wells in New Mexico’s Aztec National Monument was exempt from being regulated by the National Park Service,...
View ArticleReader’s view: Unregulated oil and gas extraction threatens public safety and...
Ed Marston, the former publisher of High Country News, wrote the following letter to the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission. He shared it with The Colorado Independent. Energy development is not...
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BLM auctions drilling rights to Pawnee National Grasslands
Lakewood — Inside the Bureau of Land Management office Thursday, a fast talking, cowboy-hat-wearing auctioneer did quick work: In three hours, buyers had purchased 93 percent of nearly 90,000 acres up...
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Coloradans favor clean energy, federal regulations and national parks
A bipartisan poll from Colorado College debunks stereotypes about Coloradans’ attitudes toward federal land and energy production. It’s easy to get caught up in the old stereotype of Colorado voters as...
View ArticleAdams County residents feel shut out of fracking conversation
Many Adams County residents support a 10-month moratorium on fracking. Oil and gas industry representatives say a temporary ban would hurt the local economy. Anti-fracking activists say the Adams...
View ArticlePublic fracking study session postponed. Adams County commissioners to meet...
The Adams County Board of Commissioners has postponed a public fracking information session scheduled for Tuesday in order to meet privately with the county attorney. The county government website...
View ArticleOil and gas industry rattled by Adams County fracking pause
The Adams County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to enact a six-week moratorium on new fracking development in high density urban areas. Commissioner Eva Henry proposed the motion during a...
View ArticleNew website maps fracking in Adams County
Environmental group Conservation Colorado unveiled a new website Thursday that maps all existing and planned fracking activity in Adams County. The website, called “Coming Soon Adams County,” includes...
View ArticleJoe Salazar: Hickenlooper swallowed ‘fracking fluid Kool Aid’
Democratic State House Rep. Joe Salazar has been waging a 24-hour social media attack against those who back fellow Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper’s support of fracking. Salazar threw his first...
View Article$22.7 million already given to state campaigns for fall elections
Voters may be months away from being asked whether grocery stores can sell full-strength beer and wine, local governments can ban hydraulic fracturing or the state will increase the minimum wage. But...
View ArticleReport: Top CO Dems help back 2016 pro-fracking causes
Top Colorado Democrats, including those who led an effort to turn the state blue more than a decade ago, “have warmed to the frackers,” according to a report in The Intercept. The piece, written by...
View ArticlePost-mortem: Why Colorado’s anti-fracking measures didn’t make the ballot
The fractivists were prepared for this. Before turning in the more than 200,000 ballot petition signatures they collected to qualify two anti-fracking measures for the November ballot, members of the...
View ArticleColorado oil and gas industry doubles down on Raise the Bar
Raise the Bar, the campaign that would make it harder for Colorado voters to amend the state’s constitution, pulled in another $1.4 million in contributions over the past two weeks, bringing the total...
View ArticleGUEST POST: What’s on the line for Colorado this election, from a mom and mayor
NOTE: The Colorado Independent occasionally runs guest posts from government officials, local experts and concerned citizens on a variety of topics. These posts are meant to provide diverse...
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Greeley residents sue state oil and gas commission over neighborhood drilling...
A group of homeowners in Greeley filed a lawsuit this morning in Denver District Court against the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), alleging that the state agency ignored its own...
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Forced pooling is not mandatory swim practice
A slightly different version of this story first appeared in the Boulder Weekly. When James Sines shopped for homes in 2007, he thought he knew how to pick a neighborhood that would never be drilled...
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Broomfield City Council laments “limited toolkit” to regulate residential...
In a packed and emotional meeting Tuesday night, Broomfield City Council took the first step toward approving two ordinances to increase its control over fracking and drilling. Council members were...
View ArticleEnvironmental groups intervene to defend federal methane rule
Fifteen state, regional, tribal and national groups, including one from southwestern Colorado, have filed a legal motion with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to intervene on behalf of the...
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