Rare Colorado wildflowers survive 30 years of bureaucratic bumbling
FRISCO — Pity the poor White River beardtongue, growing only in a few scattered clumps on crumbly oil-shale bluffs in Northwest Colorado. If there ever was a safe haven for a plant, you’d think it...
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Lamborn’s excuses blowing in the wind while Polis sets sights on oil shale...
Asked why he was Colorado’s lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn answered his “preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal...
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House green lights oil shale plan but stops wind production tax credit in its...
A bill designed to encourage oil shale development cruised through the House on Thursday evening. But a wind production tax credit didn’t fly, and now layoffs and abandoned projects loom. The...
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Chevron giving up oil shale research in western Colorado to pursue other...
Chevron is giving up its experimental oil shale lease in western Colorado. The company is one of only three that holds a federal lease to research oil shale energy development on the Western Slope, but...
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New report warns against oil shale risks, consequences for Colorado’s water
BOULDER — Pursuing oil shale production in the face of increasing water demands and climate change concerns is ill-advised, a new report from an environmental group here warns. Shell in-situ oil shale...
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Senate rejects Lamborn’s oil shale bill, drilling in Arctic National Wildlife...
The Senate denied a bill on Tuesday that would have authorized up to 2 million acres of public land for oil shale exploration in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming — not to mention open the Arctic National...
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‘Black Sunday’ lessons from 30 years ago coloring Colorado oil shale debate...
Thirty years ago, Herb Bacon was working in the old U.S. Bank of Grand Junction when a man operating Exxon’s local oil shale project walked into the lobby with his usual pep in his step. “He stopped in...
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Obama administration challenges oil, gas companies to drill already leased lands
Oil and gas companies are tapping only about 28 percent of federal sea floor they have leased and 56 percent of the onshore land they’ve leased is also sitting idle, the Interior Department said...
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Polis amendment to strip funding for oil shale passes by one vote
Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis’ amendment to strip $25 million in subsidies for oil shale passed the House today on a 208-207 vote. The money will be redirected to deficit reduction. The measure failed...
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Records detail secret meeting between oil executives, government officials
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Newly released documents confirm that politicians and industry representatives secretly met in March to hammer out a position on the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to scale back...
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