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Car-share popularity growing in Denver
There’s a lot of new technology available in the latest generation of cars today, but the car of the future may not be your car — it may be a shared car. Sharing a car among members of a group, also...
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Colorado oil and gas company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
American Eagle Energy Corp., a small Denver-area oil and gas company with operations in North Dakota, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the federal bankruptcy court in Denver. It's the...
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Niobrara oil production expected to drop soon
Colorado’s oil production has soared in the last few years, but the end of the boom — marked by low crude oil prices, budget cuts and layoffs — could soon lead to lower production numbers also. The...
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Feds told to look at impact of Colorado coal mine expansion; judge threatens...
The federal agency that oversees mining operations nationwide has 120 days to take a “hard look” at the environmental impact of expanding the Colowyo coal mine in northwestern Colorado and gather...
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Colorado's oil and gas slump is fallout from global game of 'chicken,' says exec
The budget cuts, layoffs and office closures that have spread across Colorado’s oil and gas fields in recent months are the “collateral damage” in an international game of chicken involving the biggest...
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'Super base' for fracking equipment opens in Brighton
FMC Technologies Inc., which makes and services equipment used in hydraulic fracturing and well completion operations, has opened an $11.9 million “super-base” in Brighton to serve customers in the...
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Xcel spends $534M on 3 new power units at north Denver plant
Cherokee Generating Station, Xcel Energy’s massive power plant in north Denver, is about to get a new lease on life. Three new generating units have been installed at the half-century-old plant at a...
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Colorado will comply with EPA’s plan to cut CO2 emissions, Hickenlooper says
Colorado will move ahead with crafting a plan to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution from its power plants across the state, Gov. John Hickenlooper told U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a...
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Hickenlooper orders Colorado to step up sage grouse protections — but will it...
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday issued an executive order for state agencies to step up their efforts to protect the greater sage grouse in hopes of the bird off the list of endangered species. The...
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Noble Energy deal for Rosetta sets the benchmark for M&A industry wide, IHS says
Noble Energy Inc.’s all-stock deal for Rosetta Resources is a good deal for both companies, according to a new analysis from IHS Inc., an energy information and analysis company based in Douglas...
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Denver, Houston companies team on oil and gas rail hubs in Colorado, Texas
Denver’s ARB Midstream LLC is teaming up with Houston’s Hi-Crush Partners LP, which mines and ships sand used in fracking, to build two rail hubs. The two companies will jointly develop and operate a...
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Xcel willing to sell wholesale power to breakaway Boulder utility, but wants...
Xcel Energy Inc. says it's willing to provide power to Boulder as the city launches its own municipal utility, but wants to talk more about the terms and the framework of a potential contract with the...
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DBJ energy forum: Low oil prices have wide-reaching effects
The overarching issue with the oil and gas industry fallout is global communities and a sector marked by boom-and-bust cycles, said Stephen Trammel, director of unconventional resources for IHS Inc.,...
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Xcel gets FAA permission to fly drones for inspections
Xcel Energy Inc. has received the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval to fly unmanned aerial drones to inspect the utility’s equipment, among the 400 such permits the federal agency has issued...
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Get ready to pay up to drive U.S. 36 to Boulder: Toll rates have been set
After spending two months considering a proposal for toll rates along the initial phase of U.S. 36 between Denver and Boulder, an arm of the Colorado Department of Transportation has made a decision....
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Colorado will help pay to remake stock show complex
A critical piece of the financial puzzle to pay for the transformation of the National Western Stock Show in Denver fell into place Wednesday when Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a law to...
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DIA should improve concession program for small & minority businesses,...
The Denver auditor's office says the city’s efforts to help small and minority businesses set up restaurants and stores at Denver International Airport has some “weaknesses,” and needs improvement in...
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Is Musk’s Powerwall the key to solar?
Want Tesla’s sleek new battery pack, called the Powerwall, hanging in your garage? Get in line. Elon Musk, CEO of electric-car builder Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA), on April 30 unveiled the Tesla...
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Hogan Lovells again taps a local attorney to oversee energy practice
Once again, the co-chair of international law firm Hogan Lovells’ firm-wide energy and resources group is a Denver-based lawyer. Scot Anderson — a Denver-based partner with the firm since 2013,...
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Colorado's biggest rural power cooperative wades into solar fight
Colorado’s largest rural electric cooperative, which has seen a massive surge this year in the number of solar power systems installed by homeowners in its territory, is poised to change the way it...
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