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Earthjustice's McIntosh seeks balance for environment, business
After 22 years with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), Heidi McIntosh crossed the Continental Divide last November to become managing attorney for the Denver office of Earthjustice, which is...
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Oil squeeze: Prospect Energy’s wells are idled
Scott Hall’s 11-employee oil and gas company, Black Diamond Minerals LLC of Denver, isn’t “Big Oil” by any stretch. But one of the company’s subsidiaries, Prospect Energy LLC, operates the Fort Collins...
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Xcel Energy seeks bids for new Colorado power plants
Xcel Energy Inc. on Friday issued a request for proposals for power plants capable of supplying the utility with about 250 megawatts of electricity that could be available by the end of 2018. The...
View ArticleColorado town takes different path on oil and gas boom
While Fort Collins and Longmont have imposed bans on the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of oil and gas wells inside the city limits, another local government has taken a different route to...
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Colorado legislators propose tighter oil and gas regulation
Three new bill proposals calling for additional regulation of the oil and gas industry were introduced late Monday in the Colorado Legislature. They’re among a wave of legislative proposals addressing...
View ArticleNew director named for Colorado Energy Office
Jeff Ackermann, head of research at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC), has been appointed the new director of the Colorado Energy Office, effective April 1, Gov. John Hickenlooper's office...
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A preview of RTD's new FasTracks rail line
RTD's 12.1 mile, $707 million West rail line — the first line to be completed under FasTracks, the 2004 voter-approved program to lay more than 100 miles of rail through the metro area — starts...
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Prospect Energy reaches deal on Fort Collins fracking ban
Prospect Energy LLC, a small Denver oil and gas company facing the affects of Fort Collins’ ban on fracking, has reached an operating agreement with the city. The agreement, approved by the city...
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Colorado tax credits for alternative fuel vehicles pass first committee
The House Transportation and Energy Committee on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to extend Colorado’s existing program, offering tax credits for alternative-fuel vehicles, through 2021ds. Colorado...
View ArticleNew local government oil and gas fees proposed
Two state legislators from Fort Collins have introduced a bill that would require new fees on oil and gas companies to help local governments pay the cost of dealing with energy industry operations. HB...
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Noble Energy to build Colorado's first LNG plant
Noble Energy Inc., one of the biggest oil and gas producers in the Denver-Julesburg Basin north of Denver, said Thursday the company plans to build Colorado’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant....
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Dow’s new Powerhouse solar panels are sunny side up
Eighteen months after Dow Chemical Co. launched its new Powerhouse thin-film solar power roof shingles in Arvada, the company expects to install them on hundreds of roofs across Colorado in coming...
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Interior Sec. Ken Salazar announces new oil shale plan
Outgoing U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday announced decisions on oil shale research and development in Colorado, proposing new requirements that companies prove the viability of oil shale...
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DIA 'construction cam' trains eye on $500M terminal project
You don’t have to drive out to Denver International Airport to check the progress of its South Terminal project. Just click here for DIA’s “construction cam.” You can watch a live stream, catch a...
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DCP Midstream leader: ‘We don’t frack, but we rely on it’
Wouter van Kempen — chairman, president and CEO of Denver-based DCP Midstream LLC, which is the largest natural gas gatherer and processor in Colorado and the second-largest in the country — remembers...
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RTD program a WIN for job seekers
The Regional Transportation District's "Workforce Initiative Now"(WIN) program, launched about 18 months ago, has put about 100 people to work on some of Denver's biggest infrastructure projects, the...
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ZeaChem scales back at Oregon biofuel plant
ZeaChem Inc. has cut back operations at its demonstration plant in Oregon and laid off an undisclosed number of employees, the Lakewood biofuel company confirmed Tuesday. The moves come a month after...
View ArticleWyoming’s renewable wind power could benefit Colorado
Renewable wind energy generated in Wyoming could be shipped to Colorado via a new transmission line — generating $3.7 billion in economic activity for both states, according to two studies completed on...
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Colorado’s renewable energy rules may rise for rural coops
Colorado's renewable energy standard, calling for utilities to use more wind and solar power, would require rural areas of the state to use more renewable energy under a bill introduced Wednesday at...
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