Events overtaking Hickenlooper local-control deal, resistance hardening
Today is the first day of July, the date’s number 1 blinking like a warning-light exclamation point on the phone and computer screens of Colorado’s top state officials. The date signals that...
View ArticleEnviro group touts Chevron disclosure: Oil-shale play would gulp 40B gallons...
IN recently released court documents, Chevron Corporation reported it would have needed to drain the Colorado River of nearly 40 billion gallons of water every year in order to develop an oil-shale...
View ArticleOn the Divine Right of Big Energy and revolutions of the mind
Here maybe, in the climate change era, at the end of 2014, we are seeing news of the beginnings of a different kind of “end of history.” The news that matters always contains evidence of a revolution...
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Large percentage of Exxon, Chevron shareholders vote for fracking study
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson today admitted the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, comes with certain risks, telling reporters at the company’s annual meeting that...
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Top corporations spent millions on politics to save billions in taxes
Five top U.S. corporations racked up millions in profits last year and paid no federal taxes. They spent money instead on political campaigns and it was money well spent. Over the last decade, Bank of...
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Gas-pump ad campaign targets GOP Rep. Gardner
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is gunning for Colorado Freshman Representative Cory Gardner with a bold gas-station advertising campaign that highlights his votes in support of oil...
View ArticleWhile oil and gas industry gushes over Tipton, radio campaign calls him out
A nonpartisan watchdog group is blowing the whistle on U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and others in Congress who consistently advocate for tax breaks, subsidies and other giveaways to oil and gas companies....
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Chevron giving up oil shale research in western Colorado to pursue other...
Chevron is giving up its experimental oil shale lease in western Colorado. The company is one of only three that holds a federal lease to research oil shale energy development on the Western Slope, but...
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New report warns against oil shale risks, consequences for Colorado’s water
BOULDER — Pursuing oil shale production in the face of increasing water demands and climate change concerns is ill-advised, a new report from an environmental group here warns. Shell in-situ oil shale...
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‘Black Sunday’ lessons from 30 years ago coloring Colorado oil shale debate...
Thirty years ago, Herb Bacon was working in the old U.S. Bank of Grand Junction when a man operating Exxon’s local oil shale project walked into the lobby with his usual pep in his step. “He stopped in...
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