colorado petroleum council
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Bentley departs Colorado Petroleum Council to run Permian Strategic Partnership
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Tracee Bentley, the founding executive director of the Colorado Petroleum Council, has been hired to run an industry organization based in the energy-rich Permian Basin. The San Luis Valley native takes over on March 18 as CEO of the Permian Strategic Partnership, a civic-minded consortium formed by 20 leading fossil fuel producers active in the…
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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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Colorado Rising to take another shot at an oil and gas ballot initiative
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Colorado Rising, the group that put forth the oil-and-gas setback initiative Proposition 112 on the November ballot, now says it is looking at another ballot measure in 2020 if “state leaders fail to take effective action to protect residents from neighborhood drilling.” What would that 2020 ballot measure look like? The group isn’t saying just yet.…
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House Dem leader misses mark — and goes out on a limb — in support of Prop. 112
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Colorado’s natural gas and oil industry prides itself on working with both Democrats and Republicans in growing our economy, protecting our environment, and providing jobs and opportunity to the hard-working people of our state. That is why it was so unfortunate to see Colorado House Majority Leader KC Becker throw her support behind Proposition 112…
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Initiative 97: Oil and gas setback proposal makes November ballot
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The initiative that may have had the hardest road to November’s ballot – Initiative 97, which would expand buffers between occupied buildings, “vulnerable areas” and new oil and natural gas development from 500 to 2,500 feet – has been certified by Colorado’s secretary of state. Proponents turned in 172,834 signatures, and a random sample deemed…
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Q&A with Tracee Bentley | From farm kid to energy advocate
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Tracee Bentley may have left Colorado’s countryside years ago to become a mover and shaker at the State Capitol in Denver, but you can’t take the country out of her. Nowadays a leading voice for the state’s booming oil and gas industry – after carving out a rep as a hard-as-nails lobbyist and serving as…
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Colorado’s energy industry powers a high standard of living for Colorado families
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Each year, the Colorado Petroleum Council hosts an annual luncheon and dialogue on the state of the energy industry in Colorado and the Mountain West. Especially during this time of increasingly heated political debate, we find it critically important to come together at today’s gathering and discuss a wide range of issues, from public policy…
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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…
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Drilling setback ballot measure would keep rigs off of most Colorado lands
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About 85 percent of the state and private land in Colorado would be unavailable for surface development by the oil and gas industry if a ballot measure adopting a 2,500-foot setback for new wells from homes and schools is adopted, according to an analysis by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The analysis was…
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Colorado’s oil and gas industry tells voters it’s a friend
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Colorado’s oil and gas industry needs all the friendly voters it can get in the next few weeks, so the avalanche of positive spin generated this week by its allies and affiliates is no coincidence. In the June primary, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, the industry’s favorite political bad guy, is leading the field of four…
