Author: Dan Haley

Dan Haley In 2019, Great Britain banned development of its own oil and natural gas supplies, relinquishing its energy dependence to foreign countries. Today, much like the rest of Europe, Great Britain now faces an energy crisis. British utility bills will rise 80% this fall and inflation could hit 22%, which will crush family budgets and ripple through…

Dan Haley Fifty years ago, the Arab Oil Embargo caused gasoline prices to skyrocket, forced Americans to languish in long gas lines, and prompted the United States to re-think its foreign policy. We quickly learned that being beholden to foreign cartels for our energy was a threat to our national security. After all, affordable, efficient,…

Dan Haley When well-intentioned politicians in Colorado and Washington, D.C. look to the future, they point to a 100-percent renewable energy target.  Just this week, when the Biden administration announced its indefinite ban on oil and gas leasing on public lands, the conversation didn’t center on how to produce cleaner domestic energy, it was about…

Dan Haley Colorado Politics columnist Paula Noonan recently insinuated that the oil and natural gas industry had something to do with the firing of a former University of Colorado professor, Dr. Detlev Helmig, and former Boulder Daily newspaper reporter John Spina. Neither is correct, which is why her April 30 column (“NOONAN | Plot thickens…

Dan Haley Colorado’s once robust economy is flagging. Storefronts are shuttered, job losses are mounting and families are hurting. COVID-19 has slammed the brakes on the world’s economy, hampering entire industries from restaurants and food service, to tourism, and yes, to oil and natural gas. We’ve been through tough times before as a state, and…

Dan Haley In her Feb. 6 commentary “Lax oversight of oil, gas shortchanges the state, taxpayers,” Colorado Politics columnist Paula Noonan misleads readers about the state’s recent audit concerning severance taxes. The allegation that oil and natural gas companies do not pay their taxes is wrong. Department of Revenue spokesman Daniel Carr recently made this clear in…

Dan Haley Where do we go from here? That question has been top of mind for Colorado’s oil and natural gas industry the past few weeks. For far too long, an unhealthy brew of partisan politics and fear-based rhetoric has heated up the debate over oil and gas in our state. Ballot measure after ballot…