hydraulic fracturing
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Colorado Supreme Court clarifies who owns oil, gas rights beneath streets
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday, citing a need to avoid mass litigation across the state, ruled for the first time that property owners generally retain the mineral rights under roadways adjacent to their land, up to the center line. The decision resolved the question of who is entitled to oil and gas royalties for…
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Insidious Initiative 97 would destroy Colorado’s oil and gas economy
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After decades of hard work, Colorado has a diverse and growing economy. Every sector of that economy is important, but the energy sector plays a critical role. Colorado’s business community will always be ready to defend it. Energy producers in Colorado literally fuel every other sector of the economy. With locally sourced and affordable energy,…
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Ask an oil industry top guy: Jack Gerard on Colorado drilling and local control
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Jack Gerard is bullish on the oil and gas industry and its role in the the energy and manufacturing future. He would be, of course, because he is president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s comprehensive trade group and lobby shop. Gerard was in Denver this week to touch…
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Colorado attorney general supports Bureau of Land Management leases
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is throwing her support behind the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as it defends itself in court against environmentalists opposed to oil and gas development projects. The environmentalists are pursuing a federal lawsuit to halt Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leases in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The oil…
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Statehouse Dems, Republicans eye environmental policy opportunities
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State Senate Republican and Democratic leaders have signaled they will dedicate additional resources and attention next year to energy and environmental issues, but in the turbulent wake of the surprise election of Donald Trump as president, the news has observers wondering whether the party caucuses are simply shoring up positions or seeing new opportunity to…
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Green Party’s Jill Stein campaigns in Colorado, woos voters wary of major party choices
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The Green Party’s Jill Stein made a presidential campaign stop in the Centennial State Saturday, courting the undecided Colorado voter, dissatisfied with the two major party candidates. Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, rallied a modest group of supporters at Colorado Springs’ Acacia Park, before leading a march through downtown chanting political battle cries like “Jill not…
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Protect Colorado running strong campaign against fractivist initiatives
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Among the persistent vexations in Colorado politics is the lingering and recurrent threat of ballot initiatives. These campaigns are often conceived by special interest groups to upend the balance of power in one area of law or another. Ask many who work in politics, and they will tell you ballot proposals often pose unintended consequences…
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Fractivists gush over 2016 ballot initiatives
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Anti-fracking environmental activists aim to have three proposals on the November ballot that would make it tougher for the energy industry to engage in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” in Colorado. The three initiatives — numbered 63, 75 and 78 — filed by Coloradans Resisting Extreme Energy Development are the last proposals standing from the nearly…
