fracking
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LOMAX: Yet again, national anti-oil and gas groups call the shots in local campaigns
After the failure of statewide anti-fracking ballot measures in Colorado last year, national activist groups are regrouping at the local level. This is history repeating. Several years ago, the push for a statewide oil and gas ban started with local campaigns, led by Washington, D.C.-based Food & Water Watch and other out-of-state groups. Today, the…
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Business coalition says Thornton should heed Coffman’s advice on local control
As city fathers in Thornton examine local regulations on fracking at their meeting next week, they’re sitting on a letter advice warning them not to test state law. “Under the law of operational preemption, local governments may not enact regulations that conflict with the Oil and Gas Conservation Act … or COGCC regulations in a…
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BLM seeks to rescind fracking rule ahead of Denver federal court case
Reactions are predictably split between environmental and oil and gas interests over a recent plan by federal regulators to rescind an Obama-era fracking rule. The Bureau of Land Management’s 2015 rule sought to limit hydraulic fracturing on public lands. The rule was never in effect due to pending litigation, which continues in Denver on Thursday.…
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Davida Sirota gets a look at Senate Republicans’ e-mails on energy
Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy CommitteeLiberal journalist extraordinaire David Sirota did what he told Colorado Politics he would do back in May. He got his eyeballs on Colorado Senate Republicans’ e-mails from a period when a bill to move oil and gas wells farther from schools was pending in the legislature. You can bet Dave would…
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Broomfield fracking fight shrinks to context of what councilman said and when he said it
A political fight over fracking in Broomfield shows little sign of a final bell. Colorado Politics told you last week how resident Camille Cave called out Councilman Kevin Kreeger at a recent council meeting. She said Kreeger had a “bromance” with Andrew O’Connor, the anti-drilling activist who justified a threat of violence against oil and…
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Broomfield city attorney throws cold water on charter amendment to curb oil and gas
Colorado Politics told you this month that some Broomfield residents want more public health and safety requirements for permitting oil and gas wells written into the city charter. They’re out collecting the 2,500 signatures from the town’s roughly 48,000 registered voters to get the issue on the November ballot. The language mirrors that of…
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Broomfield residents want ballot question to put fracking safety in town charter
Anti-drilling activists said Wednesday morning they will try to amend the Broomfield city charter to add more consideration for public health and safety – the same kind of statewide proposal that’s tied up with the courts and in politics. The group of nine filed paperwork with the city to start collected the necessary 2,500…
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Environmental groups ask Hickenlooper not to appeal oil and gas drilling decision
Environmental groups are encouraging the governor not to appeal a Colorado Court of Appeals decision emphasizing health and safety in permitting drilling. Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat and former geologist, has until Thursday to decide whether to appeal the case, which could require state oil and gas regulators to take another look at a request to…