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Oil and Gas Exploration and Drilling

  • 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

    June 13, 2011

    Oil-shale plans could be derailed by ruling on Graham's penstemon, an endangered plant

    Susan Meyer​William Blake saw heaven in a wildflower. The energy industry sees nothing but trouble. Last week, a federal judge in Denver ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to declare an obscure plant as endangered was "arbitrary and capricious" -- a ruling that could ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Ken Salazar: Oil spill gets sludge on his shiny green suit

    Department of the InteriorThe fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon.​It's too soon to start putting a figure on the damage -- to marine life, tourism, fishing industries and more -- from the 600-square-mile oil slick oozing onto the Gulf Coast today. And it's too early in the investigation to know ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Salazar moves forward -- and backward -- on oil shale leases

    ​For decades, energy companies and the federal government have tinkered with ways of trying to extract the vast hydrocarbon fuel reserves buried in rock in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar still has lots of questions about the process -- whether the curr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 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 org ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    Economic downturn hits Idaho Springs

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    Oil Shale Rush Is Déjà Vu All Over Again

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2007

    The Roan Plateau: A Guide for the Perplexed

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    Film Festival Profile: Last Hat In Town

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2007

    Politicking on the Plateau

    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 ... 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?

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2006

    Slow Go on the Plateau

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

  • Music

    August 25, 2005

    Grafton

    Tuesday, August 30, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-6000.

  • 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.

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Off Limits

    Out of the frying pan and into the fire

  • 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

    March 13, 2003

    Anti-War Craft

    Students ruffle Auraria's tradition of apathy.

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