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Energy Sector

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Reader: Denver Post changes are like Exxon watering down gas

    Our item sharing a memo from editor Greg Moore about impending cuts in the Denver Post copy-editing department, which sources tell us could result in two-thirds of the staff being laid off, prompted plenty of discussion about the state of journalism today. Here's a comment from a reader who thinks s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Big Oil making big profits on declining production

    ​It's official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies -- BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell -- reporting all-time-high profits of $137 billion. That's a 75 percent jump from the year before, even though the giants produc ... More >>

  • News

    January 19, 2012

    Drilled, Baby, Drilled: The strange battle to keep Big Oil from cheating

    ​It's official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies -- BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell -- reporting all-time-high profits of $137 billion. That's a 75 percent jump from the year before, even though the giants produc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Encana blasts EPA report linking fracking to Wyoming water pollution

    Encana WY drill rig. ​In a telephone conference with journalists this morning, officials of the Canadian energy giant Encana sharply disputed an EPA draft report that linked the company's gas drilling operations in Wyoming to contamination of residents' drinking water, calling the report badly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Tom Strickland exits Interior, chased by big bucks

    Tom Strickland.​The news that "lobbyist lawyer" Tom Strickland, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's chief of staff for a hectic two years, is now taking a job with British Petroleum's law firm in its battles with his former boss over the Deepwater Horizon mess made a big splash in the Denver Post ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Get gassed: Pho Bowl opens...inside a Conoco station!

    Loir MidsonGas up on pho inside a South Broadway Conoco station​While Denver lays claim to dozens of pho joints, Pho Bowl is the first to reside in a Conoco station. Yes, that's correct: Inside the Conoco station at 3298 South Broadway, there sits a tiny cafeteria-like parlor of pho, just adj ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Gas-drilling oversight bill killed by the House: What's the fracking point?

    Gas well pads.​A bill that sought to increase the reporting process for water-quality complaints related to oil and gas drilling in Colorado died quietly at the statehouse yesterday, with Republican lawmakers insisting that the industry's use of hydraulic fracturing fluids, or "fracking," pose ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    The solution for cleaning up the Gulf is out of this world

    Gas well pads.​A bill that sought to increase the reporting process for water-quality complaints related to oil and gas drilling in Colorado died quietly at the statehouse yesterday, with Republican lawmakers insisting that the industry's use of hydraulic fracturing fluids, or "fracking," pose ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Hip-hop hearsay: Xperiment joins Humble Beast, new track from SP Double, F.O.E. and Whygee's Dispensary Music, DJEarAttent's new mixtape and more

    Xperiment​ Colorado hip-hop is serious right now, and there's a bunch of cats making moves. Hot on the heels of his runner-up finish to back-to-back winner Boonie Mayfield in the recent Red Bull Big Tune battle, Xperiment is the latest addition to the Humble Beast roster. Based in Portland, O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Tonight: Drink beer to help the Gulf Coast Spill Relief Fund

    A Flickr photo. ​So that oil spill in the Gulf -- bummer, right? And it's still spewing, and apparently doesn't intent to stop anytime soon. We might be landlocked here in this state, but that doesn't mean no one here cares about the BP disaster; to prove it, Bull & Bush Pub & Brewery, 4700 Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    British Petroleum fined by feds in Colorado case -- three years later

    Tony Hayward.​Under fire for its lax supervision of British Petroleum and other offshore drillers, the embattled federal agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service has fined BP $5.2 million for filing "false, inaccurate, or misleading" reports about its energy production in Color ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Xcel milks bill to bilk customers, fill coffers

    aflcio / flickr​ The best of today's Denver blogs Is Xcel using green sentiment to justify hiking its rates for "dirty" power? Face the State makes the case that the legislature is writing the power utility a "giant blank check." 5280 congratulates Colorado schools for getting 29 schools on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Ken Salazar getting tough with BP: Too little too late?

    New MMS head Michael Bromwich.​The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama's lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petroleum "pay" for the oil-slick disaster in the Gulf, suggests th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado

    ​The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar still in hot seat -- but with lots of company

    "Bring me the head of Tony Heyward." ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there's increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the falte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Ken Salazar under fire: Can he survive the spill?

    All systems go, but which way? Out the door?​It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    BP spill flow much worse than we estimated, says United States Geological Survey director

    Marcia McNutt calls the spill a "significant environmental disaster." ​It's official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to four times greater than o ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Ken Salazar is spinning the Deepwater Horizon debacle

    Marcia McNutt calls the spill a "significant environmental disaster." ​It's official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to four times greater than o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Ken Salazar's role in BP disaster: More spin than reform?

    Department of the InteriorThe explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig still hasn't been explained.​The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While critics on the right chortle over Department of the Interior c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Is ConocoPhillips thinking about moving its headquarters to Louisville?

    Is something like this coming to Louisville?​Intriguing story in today's Houston Chronicle about Houston-based energy giant ConocoPhillips. Reporter Brett Clanton notes that the firm is downsizing elsewhere, but it recently filed "a preliminary development plan for its 432-acre site in Louisv ... More >>

  • Film

    October 15, 2009

    Crude at the Mayan

    Is something like this coming to Louisville?​Intriguing story in today's Houston Chronicle about Houston-based energy giant ConocoPhillips. Reporter Brett Clanton notes that the firm is downsizing elsewhere, but it recently filed "a preliminary development plan for its 432-acre site in Louisv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    End of summer pinot party tonight at Lala's Wine Bar Pizzeria

    ​While it's still a few weeks before we bid a formal farewell to summer, the wine geeks at Lala's Wine Bar Pizzeria, 410 East Seventh Avenue, see no reason to wait, which, in part, explains why the restaurant and watering hole is hosting an end-of-summer pinot party tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Xcel Energy, others accused of OSHA violations in incident that killed five

    ​In October 2007, five employees of RPI Coating Inc. were killed by carbon monoxide generated by a fire at the Cabin Creek Hydro Plant outside Georgetown that's operated by Xcel Energy and Public Service Company of Colorado. Now, a federal grand jury has issued indictments against RPI, Xcel, P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Exxon-Mobil: admitted bird killers

    Talk about paying at the pump.​Exxon-Mobil had a bad day in court in Denver yesterday. The firm pleaded guilty to killing migratory birds in five states, including Colorado. The size of the fine and community-service payments Exxon-Mobil has agreed to pony up -- $600,000 -- is, to use an avian ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

    Talk about paying at the pump.​Exxon-Mobil had a bad day in court in Denver yesterday. The firm pleaded guilty to killing migratory birds in five states, including Colorado. The size of the fine and community-service payments Exxon-Mobil has agreed to pony up -- $600,000 -- is, to use an avian ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Crossing Over

    How government watchdogs became the energy industry's party animals

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    Oil Shale Rush Is Déjà Vu All Over Again

    How government watchdogs became the energy industry's party animals

  • Music

    May 15, 2008

    Juggalos Band Together at Primos

    Meet the Insane fans who united Denver's hatchet-wielding, Faygo-loving family.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love High Gas Prices

    Meet the Insane fans who united Denver's hatchet-wielding, Faygo-loving family.

  • 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

    October 27, 2005

    A Mighty Wind

    The results of Xcel's wind-power program are still in the air.

  • Culture

    August 25, 2005

    Deeper Digging Needed

    Gary Austin's one-man Oil is no character gusher.

  • Calendar

    August 18, 2005

    Oil Strike

    Gary Austin's provocative new play comes to Bas Bleu.

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2004

    Rootsy Return

    Rickie Lee rises

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Off Limits

    Out of the frying pan and into the fire

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Power to the People

    The answer could be blowing in the wind.

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    Crouching Greed, Hidden Losses

    Lou Pai's contributions to the Enron debacle.

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    Power Outage

    Xcel Energy faces tough financial scrutiny as power companies nationwide feel the heat.

  • News

    January 10, 2002

    Funky Town

    Even though the EPA says Denver's air is getting cleaner, the odor lingers on.

  • Dining

    December 6, 2001

    Star Struck

    The Broadmoor has a heavenly reputation, but the food falls flat.

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Fill 'er Up

    Parkway Station, at your service.

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    Off Limits

    A calendar hits the wall.

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    See You in Court

    There's plenty of fuel for lawsuits against gas companies.

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    Paying the Price

    Major gas companies are driving away independent operators, all in the name of greed.

  • Dining

    March 16, 2000

    Check, Please!

    Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

  • 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.

  • Music

    November 19, 1998

    Minty Fresh

    The Tarmints specialize in longtime local Kurt Ottoway's favorite flavors.

  • News

    September 25, 1997

    A Dry Hole

    John Gable drilled for oil and suckers--including the federal government.

  • Film

    May 29, 1997

    A Miner Treasure

    John Gable drilled for oil and suckers--including the federal government.

  • News

    December 19, 1996

    Fueling Controversy

    Does Texaco discriminate against blacks? Ask Roy Phillips, Denver's black Texaco owner.

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