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Cover story: Staying clear of old wells a challenge
On the west side of Firestone, north of Denver, southwest of the junction of Interstate 25 and County Road 22, a small, old, oil and natural gas well named the Kerr-McGee Olander #2 nestles between two...
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More on the cover story: The crew of the Ensign 135 drilling rig (Video)
Colorado's $23 billion a year oil and gas industry touches many people across the state, but in different ways. The Denver Business Journal is telling some of their stories through the lens of the...
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More on the cover story: The landowner and the landman (Video)
Colorado's $23 billion a year oil and gas industry touches many people across the state, but in different ways. The Denver Business Journal is telling some of their stories through the lens of the...
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Cover story: Life on the rigs powering Colorado's oil, gas boom (Slideshow)
Driving north on Interstate 25 as the sun is rising on a late October morning, you can't miss the two drilling rigs on the southeast side of where County Road 22 meets the highway in Firestone....
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CDOT summit to focus on the future of transportation
The Colorado Department of Transportation first "Transportation Summit" in years is expected to draw about 400 people to the Westin Hotel downtown on Nov. 20 to discuss the business of transportation...
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Another high-profile state official leaving Hickenlooper administration
A fourth high-profile state official is leaving Gov. John Hickenlooper's administration: Colorado's Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar. Hickenlooper, who was reelected for a second four-year term...
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Vestas picks up orders for 200 wind turbines
Vestas Wind Systems said Friday it will build 100 turbines for the Odell Wind Farm LLC in southern Minnesota. The 200 megawatt wind farm, owned by Algonquin Power and Utilities (TSE: AQN), based in...
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More on the cover story 'Life on the Rigs': The neighbor (Video)
Colorado's $23 billion a year oil and gas industry touches many people across the state, but in different ways. The Denver Business Journal is telling some of their stories through the lens of the...
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More on the cover story 'Life on the Rigs': Firestone's town manager
Colorado's $23 billion a year oil and gas industry touches many people across the state, but in different ways. The Denver Business Journal is telling some of their stories through the lens of the...
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E-470 to raise tolls in 2015
Driving the E-470 toll road around the east side of Denver will get a bit more expensive in the new year. The toll road authority said Monday that effective Jan. 1, E-470 toll rates at all tolling...
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More on the cover story 'Life on the Rigs': Encana employees (Video)
Colorado's $23 billion a year oil and gas industry touches many people across the state, but in different ways. The Denver Business Journal is telling some of their stories through the lens of the...
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Study: DIA’s Thanksgiving travel crowds could soon be a weekly event
Denver International Airport traffic is busy enough around the Thanksgiving holidays — about 1 million people are expected to pass through the airport between Tuesday and the following Monday — but...
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DIA's top tips for Thanksgiving travelers
About 1 million people are expected to pass through Denver International Airport between the Tuesday before and the Monday after Thanksgiving this year. On an average day, about 145,000 people travel...
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RTD's $2.2B Eagle rail project to DIA is hitting major milestones (Slideshow)
The Regional Transportation District's $2.2 billion Eagle project will hit significant milestones in the next few days. The Eagle project is a portion of RTD's sprawling FasTracks project to expand...
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C-470 expansion with toll lanes moving ahead
The $230 million expansion of C-470, which will add one new toll lane in each direction between Interstate 25 and Kipling Parkway, could be mostly complete in two years, by December 2017, a division of...
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Roan Plateau: Officials to announce 'major development' in drilling dispute
The years-long legal conflict over oil and gas drilling on the Roan Plateau may be ending. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper — along with U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, other government officials,...
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Colorado to test pay-by-the-mile fee as gas-tax alternative
Don't like paying the gas tax at the pump? How about a tax on the miles you drive? The Colorado Department of Transportation is planning to launch a small pilot study of the "vehicle miles traveled"...
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RTD's new commuter-rail cars arrive in Denver; on display soon
The Regional Transportation District's first four electric commuter-rail cars — the start of what will be a 66-car fleet running on lines opening the next few years — made it to Denver Thursday...
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Protecting the Gunnison sage grouse
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the Gunnison sage grouse as "threatened," a designation that means the bird and its habitat in Colorado and Utah need greater protection in order for the...
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Roan Plateau settlement allows some drilling; cancels other leases
Oil and gas drilling rigs could be working on and around the Roan Plateau in Western Colorado in two to four years following an agreement to settle a long-running legal battle, unveiled Friday. The...
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