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Fracking swells nation's energy production
The oil and gas industry’s use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has unlocked reserves once thought too expensive and too difficult to reach. Now, oil and natural gas production in the...
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DIA opens 5 new gates for Southwest Airlines; will provide Apple iPads
Denver International Airport opened five new gates on Concource C for Southwest Airlines on Friday and said that by November, its gates on the concourse will feature Apple’s iPad integrated into table...
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PDC Energy agrees to settle 2011 class-action suit
PDC Energy Inc. said Friday its reached a settlement agreement for a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company didn’t adequately disclose information about its purchase of partnerships in 2010 and...
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Colorado oil & gas task force meets soon, but skeptics brace for 2016 election
As Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s task force on local control of oil and gas operations readies for its first formal meeting on Sept. 25, the 21 members have a difficult mission ahead — and many...
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Water World owner, SunShare sign big solar power deal
SunShare LLC, a Denver-based community solar power developer, has signed its largest single-customer power-supply contract with Hyland Hills Park and Recreation District, owner of the Water World...
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Vestas picks up another Texas wind farm order from Duke Energy
Vestas Wind Systems has picked up another order from Duke Energy's renewable energy arm to build wind turbines for a Texas wind farm. Vestas, based in Denmark with four Colorado manufacturing plants,...
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Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force is set for first meeting
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s 21-member oil and gas task force will convene its first formal meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday. The meeting will be held at the Hunter Education Building at the Colorado Parks and...
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Can Colorado energy industry, communities get along? Views offered at CSU gas...
On the eve of the first formal meeting of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s oil and gas task force, speakers at Colorado State University’s Natural Gas Symposium 2014 in Denver on Wednesday offered a laundry...
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Red Rock Biofuels lands contracts with Southwest Airlines, feds
Fort Collins-based Red Rock Biofuels LLC has had a very, very good week — with news on Wednesday that the company has signed a deal to supply Southwest Airlines with about 3 million gallons per year of...
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New crude-by-rail facility proposed for Colorado’s booming Niobrara field
A new crude-by-rail loading facility near Evans in Weld County, designed to move Colorado’s growing supply of crude oil pumped from the Denver-Julesburg Basin to markets across the country, could start...
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First meeting of Hickenlooper’s task force digs into local control of oil and...
Colorado’s new task force charged with finding a path forward on the contentious question of local control over oil and gas operations within their communities held its first meeting Thursday. And...
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Should U.S. export more energy?
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have changed the nation’s energy supplies so dramatically that now some energy executives are pushing to export oil and natural gas. And that has lead to a...
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Westmoreland Coal expands Canadian plant in wake of EPA restrictions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tighter rules on mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants is driving the expansion of a Canadian manufacturing plant owned by Westmoreland Coal Co....
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Judge: Broomfield fracking ban doesn’t apply to a Denver oil and gas company
Broomfield’s ban on fracking doesn’t apply to Sovereign Operating Co., a Denver-based oil and gas company that had reached a “memorandum of understanding” with the city before voters in November 2013...
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RGS Energy to exit commercial solar power installation, focus on residential
RGS Energy’s new CEO, brought in last April to head the solar power company’s residential division, is cutting the company’s ties to its big commercial solar business segment. Louisville-based RGS,...
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Manufacturing summit: Young workers are needed as production surges
The United States is poised to retake the mantel as the world-wide leader in manufacturing, but convincing young people to enter the sector is one of the biggest challenges the industry faces. So said...
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More on the cover story: Banning trucks from I-70 is not an option
One frequently mentioned “solution” for improving Interstate 70 traffic flow between Denver and mountain destinations is banning big 18-wheelers during peak travel times. But banning trucks from the...
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Cover story: Grappling with gridlock on Interstate 70
Interstate 70 is “Colorado’s highway” — the major east-west corridor through the state, and the path taken by thousands of people a year up to the high country for skiing, hiking, fishing, camping or...
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Cover story: Here’s what’s happening now to help I-70
I-70’s choke points have been around so long, experienced drivers can tick them off in rapid succession. There’s the Twin Tunnels just east of Idaho Springs, where both eastbound and westbound traffic...
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Record oil haul spurs investment
Experts say Colorado’s oil production will likely notch a new record in 2014, with much of that oil coming from rock thousands of feet beneath Weld County in the Niobrara and the Codell formations. The...
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