DIA launches plan to move TSA out of the terminal's Great Hall
Denver International Airport today issued an international request for qualifications in hopes of finding a public-private partnership to kick the massive security screening apparatus overseen by the...
View ArticleAmerican Petroleum Institute opens up Colorado office for oil and gas issues
Tracee Bentley, Gov. John Hickenlooper's legislative director and senior advisor on energy and agricultural issues, is leaving the office to start a new, Colorado chapter of the American Petroleum...
View ArticleOil glut: What’s the outlook?
Over the last five years, the U.S. oil and gas industry has focused on drilling and hydraulically fracturing big horizontal wells better, faster and cheaper than before. Those efforts have paid off in...
View ArticleFight over duty-free shops at DIA continues
A dispute over Denver International Airport's lucrative contract with Dufry North America LLC to sell duty-free items at the airport this week moved into Denver District Court for a second time. The...
View ArticleColorado oil and gas task force eyes many proposals on local control,...
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force returns to Denver for two days of meetings Monday and Tuesday to begin hammering out proposals aimed at smoothing years of controversy over...
View ArticleNRG Energy, SunShare sign Colorado community solar deal
Denver's SunShare, a community solar power developer, has teamed up with a deep-pocketed partner, a subsidiary of NRG Energy Inc., to finance and build about 10 megawatts of new community solar power...
View ArticleHickenlooper's oil and gas task force to review 56 recommendations
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force got to work Monday on narrowing down a laundry list of recommendations for smoothing the flash points between local governments and energy...
View ArticleHickenlooper’s task force to take up local control over Colorado oil and gas...
Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force on Tuesday is expected to focus once again on the thorny issue of local governmental control over big energy operations in and near neighborhoods. It's...
View ArticleMoney for RTD's FasTracks projects is included in Obama's 2016 budget
Two of the Regional Transportation District's (RTD) FasTracks projects are included in President Barack Obama's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2016. The budget includes $92 million to help pay for an...
View ArticleHickenlooper's oil and gas task force has 'plenty to digest' after 2-day meeting
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's 21-member oil and gas task force wrapped up a two-day meeting in Denver on Tuesday with a wide array of suggestions and proposals before them and time running out to...
View ArticleBennet, Gardner thanked by manufacturers for voting yes on Keystone XL
Support for manufacturing cut across partisan lines earlier this week when the National Association of Manufactures thanked Colorado's two U.S. senators for voting in favor of the controversial...
View ArticleColorado School of Mines lands big gift from international mining company
Colorado School of Mines in Golden has received a $1 million gift from the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation to support renovations and upgrades to the university's Edgar Mine, an experimental mine facility...
View ArticleColorado wind, solar power goals would be slashed under Republican proposal
Republicans control the state Senate by a one-vote margin, and on they Thursday used that margin to pass a bill aimed at rolling back Colorado's renewable energy standards. Senate Bill 44, sponsored by...
View ArticleMajority of Denver's wealthy investors see energy as good investment
Energy ranks second behind technology as the sector where "high-net-worth" investors in Denver are most likely to put their money in 2015, according to a new survey by Morgan Stanley. The survey was of...
View ArticleWith oil prices down, are layoffs inevitable?
Citibank on Monday dropped its forecast for crude oil prices, warning that U.S. oil prices could dip to $20 per barrel and average $46 per barrel for 2015. But one human resources expert is warning...
View ArticleDCP Midstream to shrink corporate staff
Denver-based DCP Midstream, the biggest natural gas processor in Colorado's Denver-Julesburg Basin, is shrinking its corporate staff by about 20 percent, with nearly 200 people affected by the...
View ArticleActivists demand fracking ban in Denver; oil and gas backers say they're...
Colorado's fracking wars arrived at Denver city hall Tuesday, with a coalition of 25 groups that included some of the standard bearers of the anti-fracking movement in the state delivering a statement...
View ArticleCompanies line up to bid for work on RTD light rail extension
Four teams of companies are in the running to build a $207 million, 2.3-mile extension of the Regional Transportation District's Southeast light rail line that runs down Interstate 25. The project is...
View ArticleResearchers want to know how Colorado’s oil and gas industry affects households
How does oil and gas production affect your every day life? Or does it? That's the question that researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical...
View ArticleManufacturers busy in Colorado, says trade group chief
Tim Heaton is president of the Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Association, which works to advance manufacturing in the state. CAMA started in October 2012 and has grown to nearly 200 members,...
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