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Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

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    January 26, 2012

    What the Frack?!: Grassroots group pushes for fracking moratorium in Arapahoe County

    The first time Sonia Skakich-Scrima learned about fracking, she was reading the Denver Business Journal almost a year ago to date. What she read alarmed her, but what she Googled afterward tripled that. "I tried to understand why we didn't care about the environment or the aftermath," she says. "I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Fracking lovefest blooms from John Hickenlooper's gas play

    ​Yesterday, amid an unusually genial gathering of environmental and energy leaders, Governor John Hickenlooper unveiled new state rules requiring detailed disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") methods of drilling for oil and gas -- a major step toward transpa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Fracking: Polluted water in Wyoming could spell trouble in Colorado

    Colorado oil pads.​The release of an EPA report detailing suspected groundwater contamination from gas drilling operations in Wyoming comes just as Colorado is weighing tougher restrictions and wider disclosures about the hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" process -- and may serve as Exhibit A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Fracking primer: State seeks to address uproar over drilling process

    ​Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- pumping massive amounts of water mixed with toxic chemicals into tight formations to extract oil and gas -- remains a sore subject among environmentalists, neighbors of drilling rigs and some lawmakers, even as energy industry boosters insist it's safe. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Colorado Public Radio News Initiative Finally Bearing Fruit

    ​Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- pumping massive amounts of water mixed with toxic chemicals into tight formations to extract oil and gas -- remains a sore subject among environmentalists, neighbors of drilling rigs and some lawmakers, even as energy industry boosters insist it's safe. ... More >>

  • News

    November 16, 2006

    Fighting Mad

    Tycoon Jack Grynberg says the energy industry has stolen millions from him -- and billions from the government. What if he's right?

  • News

    January 1, 2004

    Raiding the Roan

    Rich in wildlife and natural resources, the Roan Plateau survived the last energy boom. Will this one destroy it?

  • News

    October 4, 2001

    Gas Pains

    Drilling for natural gas on the Western Slope has punched holes in some residents' dreams of solitude. Others see it as the way of the West.

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    This State for Sale: A Special Report

    The state's oil and gas industry proves that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Look Out Below!

    When a Denver gas company started drilling wells in Las Animas County, it brought bad feelings to the surface.

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    The Boom Years

    Twenty-eight years after a nuclear bomb rocked Colorado, its shock waves still reverberate on the Western Slope.

  • News

    September 28, 1994

    BRUCE'S GENEROUS PALS

    Twenty-eight years after a nuclear bomb rocked Colorado, its shock waves still reverberate on the Western Slope.

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