colorado oil and gas association
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Michael Bloomberg, outside groups pour in $15 million in Colorado
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Outside groups playing in Colorado’s elections received nearly $15 million, with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg making the single biggest splash, the latest campaign finance reports show. Bloomberg gave $2 million to a committee running ads against GOP gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl and $1 million to Everytown for Gun Safety, according to reports…
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Colorado regulators boost oil and gas setbacks from school and daycare playgrounds
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Tuesday unanimously approved new rules to increase setbacks between new oil and gas operations and schools as well as child care facilities. But some anti-fracking activists said the change will not keep them from pursuing legislation in 2019 or another ballot measure to increase oil and gas buffer…
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INSIGHTS | Oil and gas poised to fight back over rules and politics
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The week after the election, hundreds of members of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association had prime rib and coffee in a ballroom inside the Hilton Denver City Center. It was COGA’s annual luncheon, but it had the feel of a victory party salted with a half-time pep talk. In a political fight over moving oil…
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Oil & gas industry focused on fighting setbacks, not Colo. governor’s race
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Association has enough to do without getting deeply involved in who Colorado’s next governor should be, the trade group’s chief says. Dan Haley, COGA’s president and CEO, told Colorado Politics that his 265 members would make their individual choices about whether to donate money to Republican Walker Stapleton or (less…
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Colo. oil and gas commission works on new safety rules
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will focus this fall on developing financial and safety guarantees for wells, orphan wells and flow lines in rule makings and working groups, Julie Murphy, the commission’s executive director, said Tuesday. Most of the initiatives stem from the home explosion in Firestone caused by a cut oil and…
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Hickenlooper, lawmakers stand with oil and gas at Denver COGA summit
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Gov. John Hickenlooper described the oil and gas industry as an economic partner that has tried to do right by Colorado’s environment in a lunch speech Tuesday. He spoke at the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s Energy Summit in Denver, which continues Wednesday, when candidates to succeed Hickenlooper – Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker…
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Initiative 97 would gut oil and gas development, devastate Colorado’s economy
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Two years ago, Bridget was a single mom with plenty of worries, but few opportunities. She was on public assistance, with no place to call her own. Then, she found a job working in Greeley for an oil and natural gas company. The job gave her a good paycheck, health benefits, and a retirement plan.…
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Initiative 97: Republicans take official position against oil & gas setbacks
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Partisan sides have been taken on Initiative 97, the ballot measure aimed at expanding setbacks for oil and gas operations from homes. Colorado Politics was the first to report that the Colorado Democratic State Central and Executive Committee had taken a position in support of it. Now Republicans have done the same in opposition. In…
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Colorado Democrats officially back limits on fracking this year
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Most Democratic candidates this year could be talking down fracking. That’s not a surprise, especially now that it’s official. The Colorado Democratic Party’s State Executive and Central Committee met July 14 at Elizabeth High School in Elbert County to tend to business, including supporting Initiative 97 to require fracking operations to be at least 2,500-foot…
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Gov. Hickenlooper signs order to tackle orphan oil & gas wells
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Gov. John Hickenlooper Wednesday signed an executive order that directs the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) to ramp up its efforts to clean up some of the state’s more than 530 “orphan” oil and gas wells around the state. Hickenlooper said Wednesday that the problem of orphan wells – abandoned wells that have been…
