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In this Inside Energy podcast special, Leigh Paterson reports on the struggle between two priorities: energy development and housing development. She takes us to Colorado’s Front Range, where drilling rigs and subdivisions are both going up in towns north of Denver. At the intersection of the these two types of development are serious concerns about health and safety.
The Interior Department is proposing changes to the 2015 Greater Sage Grouse Plans. Inside Energy looks at the impact these changes could have on the spirit of compromise across the west.
Back-to-back oil and gas explosions and three deaths, have Front Range communities on edge. This timeline lays out the many years of events leading up to these accidents.
An Anadarko oil tank battery exploded in flames on Thursday afternoon, killing one worker and injuring three more, just 3.5 miles from the site of a deadly home explosion in Firestone, Colo., that killed two last month. The state’s oil and gas industry is under increasing scrutiny from state and federal regulators.
While Democratic governors across the country are stepping up on cutting emissions, Colorado’s John Hickenlooper is stepping back. Ben Storrow, a reporter with E&E News, discusses Hickenlooper’s latest moves.
Colorado voters likely won’t be able to weigh in on the future of oil and gas development this November, but that doesn’t mean the issues themselves are dead. Environmentalists and industry are preparing for the fight to continue on the ground.
An oil and gas task force announced as part of a compromise to avoid a handful of fracking ballot measures in Colorado is not curbing the frustrations of anti-fracking activists.
The Denver Post reveals how the historic compromise was brokered earlier this month that kept anti-fracking ballot initiatives from reaching voters this November.
