Subject: Fossil Fuel Energy

• The Roan Plateau: A Guide for the Perplexed

  December 29, 2007

• Haiti Travelogue: Day One

  January 4, 2008

• Answers to the 1st Annual BCS Corporate Sponsor Bowl Quiz presented by Westword.com

  January 8, 2008

• 1st Annual BCS Corporate Sponsor Bowl Quiz Presented by Westword.com

  January 8, 2008

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love High Gas Prices

  May 2, 2008

• Oil Shale Rush Is Déjà Vu All Over Again

  June 23, 2008

• Economic downturn hits Idaho Springs

  September 9, 2008

• No Taxation Without Misrepresentation

  A state property-tax goofup means that a poor Colorado county has to pay back a huge oil company.

  January 15, 1998

• Minty Fresh

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

  November 19, 1998

• Check, Please!

  March 16, 2000

• All's Not Well

  March 23, 2000

• See You in Court

  November 9, 2000

• Off Limits

  January 4, 2001

• Shmuck in a Shell

  It's a new year, so all of the Shmucks from 2008 -- well their transgressions are just raging, unclaimed water under the bridge. But a new year means new Shmucks! And the first is making a claim for some of that raging water. Earlier this week, Shell Oil filed for "the first major water right on the Yampa River -- the last river basin in the state with unappropriated water," according to a story in the Denver Post. The Yampa runs for 250 miles through northwestern Colorado. Shell plans to slur

  January 9, 2009

• The Bite

  December 13, 2001

• Best Expense-Account Dinner

  April 4, 2002

• William Orr's quest for better, cheaper gas left him facing prison time

  September 4, 2008

• Speer Boulevard corners the market on views -- and Obama souvenirs

  August 28, 2008

• Anti-War Craft

  Students ruffle Auraria's tradition of apathy.

  March 13, 2003

• Bless This Mess

  July 31, 2008

• Funky Town

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

  January 10, 2002

• Up and Coming

  Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week.

  January 17, 2008

• Anarchists, Arise!

  Unconventional Action hopes to see the largest gathering of anarchists in American history in Denver next year.

  October 25, 2007

• Fighting Mad

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

  November 16, 2006

• Deeper Digging Needed

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

  August 25, 2005

• Oil Strike

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

  August 18, 2005

• Rootsy Return

  Rickie Lee rises

  December 23, 2004

• Bush Bash

  Hustler's Flynt takes on el presidente

  July 8, 2004

• Off Limits

  Out of the frying pan and into the fire

  May 20, 2004

• Whisper to Scream

  From punk to folk, poetry to prose, Patrick Porter is a voice of unease.

  November 21, 2002

• Star Struck

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

  December 6, 2001

• This Thug's Life

  Frank Lontine thought being in a gang would be cool. Now he's got plenty of time to think about why it isn't.

  November 8, 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.

  October 4, 2001

• Walking Tall

  He was kicked out of a recent career fair, but Bill Coleman always stands out on the job.

  July 19, 2001

• Fill 'er Up

  Parkway Station, at your service.

  April 12, 2001

• Paying the Price

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

  November 9, 2000

• This State for Sale: A Special Report

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

  May 13, 1999

• Look Out Below!

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

  November 12, 1998

• Worse Than a Pledge Drive

  A southeast Denver neighborhood howls about a public-TV station's profit-making development proposal.

  February 26, 1998

• A Dry Hole

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

  September 25, 1997

• A Miner Treasure

  May 29, 1997

• Fueling Controversy

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

  December 19, 1996

• Tonight at the Wynkoop: Author Andrew Nikiforuk reveals Canada's dirty oil secrets

  Most Americans probably don't know that Canada has replaced Saudi Arabia as our primary source of imported oil. And fewer still have any idea that much of the Canadian oil, refined into gasoline at places like Suncor Energy's plant in Commerce City, is some of the nastiest stuff on earth, obtained at a hellacious environmental cost. Meet Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent, who's currently on a speaking tour trying to give the

  April 30, 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 reference, chicken feed given the profits the company has reaped in recent years. Nonetheless, the corporate behmoth is also having to invest in a plan to prevent such slayings in the future. These p

  August 14, 2009

• Did the spontaneity-free climate-change rally in Greeley have a Mr. Burns touch?

  As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. House. An internal memo apparently written by API president Jack Gerard that was recently obtained by Greenpeace spells out the planning process behind the events in great detail. Read that e-mail, a

  August 28, 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. The other part, which is far more altruistic, is that tonight's wine tasting is a benefit for Homeaid Colorado, a local nonprofit that helps to temporarily house the homeless. Admission is $18 per p

  September 1, 2009

• Claim: No "peak-oil crisis" -- thanks partly to Western Colorado oil shale

  ​Worried that the world's oil supplies will soon dwindle into nothingness? Relax -- we've got plenty. At least that's the assertion of H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, which describes itself as a "nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization" with a goal to "develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector

  September 8, 2009

• Flick Pick

  October 15, 2009

• Crude at the Mayan

  October 15, 2009

• Say Yes to the Yes Men

  November 19, 2009