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Several Colorado energy companies voice support for proposal on local control...
Seven Colorado oil and gas companies, including some of the biggest in the state, have sent a letter to Gov. John Hickenlooper offering their “strong support” for the latest draft of a bill that would...
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Cover story: What’s being done about beetle-killed forests?
With most experts saying there’s little to be done to stop the flights of beetles through Colorado’s forests, towns, agencies and others are dealing with the aftermath of their destruction in a variety...
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Cover story: Battling the beetles
Randy Piper has spent 10 years selling products made from Colorado’s blue-stained beetle-killed wood. Piper’s company, GreenWay Building Products LLC in Denver, channels the wood from trees killed by...
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From humble beginnings, SunShare is seeing success
David Amster-Olszewski is 27 years old, graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs about five years ago, and is the founder and president of one of the big players in the new, rapidly growing...
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Cover story: Building with beetle-killed wood one answer to problem
Companies that want to build homes in the new Midtown development at West 67th Avenue and Pecos Street in Denver had better have a green bent. That’s because Brookfield Homes has some definite ideas...
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More on the cover story: Making money from beetle mayhem
The beetle epidemic that’s swept Colorado’s forests since 1996 has left behind millions of acres of dead trees. But that doesn’t mean all the trees are worthless. There is a window of time when the...
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Vestas teams with RES Americas, Xcel Energy for North Dakota wind farm
Three companies with Colorado operations are teaming up to build a North Dakota wind farm named Border Winds. Vestas Wind Systems, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer with four plants in Colorado,...
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Dueling letters show rift in Colorado's oil & gas industry over local control...
Nineteen oil and gas companies have written Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to voice their opposition to a legislative proposal to give local governments more control over industry operations. The...
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Colorado Supreme Court rejects challenges to Polis-backed oil & gas measures
The Colorado Supreme Court Monday blocked challenges to six ballot proposals backed by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis concerning local regulation of oil and gas operations. The ruling means the campaign backing...
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Colorado Supreme Court blocks environmental ballot proposal
The Colorado Supreme Court has turned back a ballot proposal that sought to establish a right to clean air, clean water and natural resources in the state because its backers sent a substitute to a...
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CH2M Hill Chairman Lee McIntire to retire
Lee McIntire, chairman of international engineering firm CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd., will retire from that post at the company’s September board meeting, the company said Tuesday. McIntire, who joined the...
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How are Colorado and Canada connected? (Video)
Happy Canada Day! Canada Day is officially today, July 1, but the nation’s consulate general office in Denver started celebrating several days ago. The office had a celebration on the World Trade...
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Ardent Mills selects downtown Denver location for new headquarters
The new flour-milling giant Ardent Mills has picked its headquarters location in Denver: four floors at 1875 Lawrence St. in downtown. “This will be our new home and will allow us to combine all of our...
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Vestas racks up 740 megawatts of wind turbine orders
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems received 740 megawatts worth of new orders in the last several days, with its machines destined to generate electricity at wind farms across the...
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Denver International Airport $25 million upgrade includes runways, LED lighting
Denver International Airport is starting two projects, totaling $25 million, to repair and upgrade its two east-west runways. The airport has four north-south runways and two east-west runways. “The...
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Oil and gas development means mitigating impacts, says former Colorado governor
Concerns about the health impacts of oil and gas operations are real, and people are working to mitigate risks associated with the industry. But there’s a larger issue at play that also needs to be...
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Fracking wastewater linked to Oklahoma earthquakes, says study involving CU...
An increase in the number of earthquakes in central Oklahoma likely stems from the use of underground injection wells to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas operations in underground rock layers,...
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Stirling engine heats up Cool Energy's outlook
Boulder-based Cool Energy Inc. sees a big future in 200-year-old technology. Cool Energy is focused on the Stirling engine, which dates to 1816. The Stirling engine uses temperature differences in...
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Cool Energy turns waste heat into power with 200-year-old technology (Video)
The Stirling engine dates back nearly 200 years, but Boulder-based Cool Energy Inc. is using modern designs and materials to take the 1816 invention to the next generation of energy-efficient power...
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Colorado professor says fracking effects need more study
Hydraulic fracturing is a decades-old industry technique used to produce oil and natural gas, but only in the last 10 to 15 years has its use reached today’s high level in some places around the...
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