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Colorado Senate approves renewable energy goal for rural co-ops
The Colorado state Senate late Monday approved a bill that would raise the state's renewable energy requirement to 25 percent for rural electric cooperatives across the state. The bill now goes to the...
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Longtime Denver oil and gas exec to head new energy company
Joe Jaggers, a veteran Denver oil and gas executive, will lead a newly formed, Denver-based company named Jagged Peak Energy LLC, Houston-based private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners announced...
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Credit cards to be accepted at RTD light rail stations
Credit cards allowed. That’s the word from the Regional Transportation District (RTD) on Tuesday, which announced it's recently completed installing new ticket vending machines at nearly all of its...
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Senate bill would reform Colorado oil and gas inspection
Colorado's oil and gas inspectors would use a "risk-based strategy" to focus on industry operations that have proven to be problematic in the past under a bill approved by the Colorado Senate. SB 202,...
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'Endangered' Colorado River generates $26B in benefits
The Colorado River offers $26 billion in economic benefits to the nation, but is so overused that it's become the "most endangered river" in the nation, according to the head of the American Rivers...
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Denver Mayor Hancock, airport officials heading to South Africa
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and leaders of Denver International Airport will be in South Africa next week, participating in the Airport Cities World Conference at Ekurheleni, near Johannesburg. After...
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Colorado School of Mines makes natural-gas prediction
The amount of natural gas that can be retrieved in the United States using current-day technology rose to a record estimate of 2,384 trillion cubic feet at the end of 2012, according to the Potential...
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Construction industry hopes for flexibility in new laws
Immigrant labor is critical to the Denver area’s construction and landscape industries, and executives hope changes to the nation’s immigration laws will be flexible in allowing for seasonal workers....
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Cemex, owner of Lyons cement plant, to settle pollution allegations
Cemex, owner and operator of a Portland cement plant in Lyons, will pay a $1 million civil penalty and install $600,000 worth of new pollution control equipment at the plant to settle alleged...
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Vestas and GE tied for wind energy market share
Vestas Wind Systems, a Danish wind turbine maker with four Colorado manufacturing plants, virtually tied General Electric Co. in terms of global wind energy market share in 2012 in a report by...
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Federal royalties office assesses civil penalty on Oxy USA
Oxy USA Inc. has been assessed a $947,200 civil penalty by the federal Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), based in Lakewood. The office, part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, is...
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Encana pumped about New Mexico oil play
Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. — the Denver-based U.S. unit of Canada's Encana Corp. — will move forward with drilling for oil in New Mexico's San Juan Basin, which could be among the nation's newest...
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Pace slows on Rockies oil and gas deals in 1Q
The pace of deals in the Rocky Mountain oil patch slowed during the first quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2012, mirroring a slowdown that also occurred at the national level. That's according...
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Higher standards, faster permits proposed for Colorado's oil and gas companies
Oil and gas companies willing to meet “enhanced” water and air quality standards could get state environmental permits from the faster under a proposal at the Colorado Legislature. The bill, SB 284, is...
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Real Goods Solar unit lands $20M deal with California schools
A division of Real Goods Solar Inc. will do a $20 million project with the Stockton (Calif.) Unified School District that, when complete, will provide solar power systems capable of producing 5.1...
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Oil and gas industry may have to cut pollution levels in Colorado
Colorado’s health department is considering possible new rules that would force the state’s oil and gas industry to invest in new equipment to reduce pollution from its operations statewide. The...
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Vestas and GE tied for wind energy market share
Vestas Wind Systems, a Danish wind turbine maker with four Colorado manufacturing plants, virtually tied General Electric Co. in terms of global wind energy market share in 2012 in a report by...
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Niobrara gains worldwide attention
Oil production from Colorado’s Niobrara play is getting attention in world energy markets, and foreign countries are closely watching what happens with Colorado’s oil and gas regulations. That’s...
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Local governments won’t wait for Colorado’s oil/gas regs
Far from the angry rhetoric over Colorado’s oil and gas industry that’s heard at the state Capitol, energy companies and local officials are quietly reaching agreements on new, tighter well permitting...
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Denver’s first FasTracks rail line just the beginning, RTD says
Friday's opening of RTD's West Rail Line from downtown Denver to Golden drew hundreds of people to the end of the light rail route in Jefferson County to see the 10 a.m. train rip through a banner...
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