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Ken Salazar Blamed By Oil And Gas Companies For Scant Interest In New Drilling Projects

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Interior Department, Environmental Regulations, New Energy, Salt Lake City, Natural Gas, Ken Salazar, Oil, Utah, Natural Gas Regulations, Breaking News on Oil Drilling, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of Preside...

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Putting Natural Gas to Work for America

George Pataki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Oil, Energy, Gas, Natural Resources, Green Energy, Pickens Plan, Natural Gas, Green News
George Pataki

While we will have great sources of renewable fuel down the road, we need something now. And what is available now, and proven to be in great abundance in the United States, is natural gas.

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BLM Oil And Gas Auction Is Third Smallest Since 1970

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Natural Gas, BLM Auction, Jim Sample, Rio Blanco County, Denver News

DENVER — Federal officials have sold oil and gas leases on a total of about 6,000 acres in Colorado for $112,969. The highest per-acre price in...

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Finally, Good News on Climate! US Carbon Emissions Drop

Patrick McCully | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Peak Carbon, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Peak Oil, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Change, Natural Gas, International Rivers, Global Warming, Green News
Patrick McCully

The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.

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Natural Gas Autos Can Help

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Natural Gas, T. Boone Pickens, Natural Gas Vehicles, New Alternative Transportation, Green News
T. Boone Pickens

Taxis and government vehicles, school and municipal buses, express delivery and utility trucks are candidates for moving away from burning imported gasoline or diesel to running on domestic natural gas.

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Wastewater In New York Found To Be Radioactive From Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fracking, Water, New York Wastewater, Dirty Energy, Environment, Natural Gas, New York Water, Natural Gas Dilling, Radioactive Wastewater, Green News

As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about...

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Bill Ritter Moves To Shorten Waiting Period For Natural Gas Drilling Applications

Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Josh Penry, Don Marostica, Scott McInnis, Natural Gas, Bill Ritter, Colorado Gubernatorial Election, Colorado Governor, Colorado 2010, Denver News

Governor Bill Ritter is moving to shorten the waiting period for oil and gas permits in Colorado after facing criticism from Republican opponents that...

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State Must End Threat to NYC's Drinking Water

Scott Stringer | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Watershed, Environmentalism, Marcellus Shale, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking, David Paterson, New-York-Drinking-Water, New York News
Scott Stringer

New York State regulators trail everybody else in protecting New York City's drinking water from natural gas drilling, despite the fact that they alone have the authority to do so.

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Scott McInnis: Ritter Should Emulate Pennsylvania On Natural Gas

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Gary Harmon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Scott McInnis, Natural Gas, Ed Rendell, Ed Rendell Natural Gas, Bill Ritter, Colorado Natural Gas, Denver News

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who bypassed an opportunity to levy a tax on natural gas drilled in his state, has the right approach to drilling, Scott...

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Huerfano County's Contaminated Water Supply Has Gas Company Playing Defense

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Greenhouse Gasses, Facking, Clean Water Act, Huerfano County, Natural Gas, Colorado, Colorado Water Contamination, Denver News

WALSENBURG, Colo. — Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and sh...

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Bill Ritter Budget Cuts: Oil And Gas Communities Concerned About Severance Tax Grants Being Withheld

Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Grand Junction, Natural Gas, Colorado Budget Cuts, Oil, Colorado Budget, Bill Ritter, Greenhouse Gasses, Severence Tax, Denver News

Colorado communities that rely heavily on oil and natural gas drilling are voicing concern over one segment of Governor Ritter's budget cuts that have...

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Gas Drilling in New York Comes to a Head

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Energy, Epa, Fracking, Environmentalism, Green Living, Energy Policy, Fracking Fluid, Natural Gas, New York News
Andrew Reinbach

Cooperstown, NY: Gas drilling and the forces behind it are massed to exploit the rich deposits of upstate New York, in the process trampling on the basic idea of government.

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Garfield County Oil And Gas Office Undermanned, Overwhelmed By Increase In Oil Paperwork

The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent | John Colson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Garfield County, Oil Drinking Water, Colorado, Natural Gas, Oil Drilling, Oil, Fracking, Garfield County Oil and Gas, Denver News

The department charged with keeping an eye on Garfield County's oil and gas industry remains among the smallest in county government. The department ...

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Josh Penry, Scott McInnis Try To Tie Bill Ritter To Obama On Oil Shale

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Gary Harmon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Interior Department, Josh Penry, 2010, Oil, Scott McInnis, Oil Shale, Natural Gas, Ken Salazar, Bill Ritter, Barack Obama, Colorado Governor, Denver News

The two Grand Junction Republicans hoping to replace Gov. Bill Ritter said a federal oil shale decision supported by Ritter offers little hope to the ...

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How Beijing Cleans Its Air (and Fakes It Too)

Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Smog, Steel, Climate Change, Beijing, China, Traffic Reduction, Global Warming, Olympics, Natural Gas, Green News
Alex Pasternack

Did a New York Times article about improvements to air quality in Beijing bear echoes of the Chinese state-run media?

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Kathy Hall, Colorado Oil And Gas Chief, Resigns Amid Brazen Comments About Fracking Fluid

Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Fracking Fluid, Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Fracking, Spliti Estate Movie, Split Estate Documentary, Split Estate, Natural Gas, Colorado Natural Gas, Denver News

A representative of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Kathy Hall, resigned from the organization last week, reports the Denver Post's Susan Greene...

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Ned Prather, Garfield County Man Allegedly Poisoned By Fracking Fluid, Waiting For Decision From State

Glenwood Springs Post Independent | John Colson | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Cogcc, Colorado Drinking Water, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Fracking, Halliburton, Safe Water Act, Natural Gas, Diana DeGette, Ned Prather, Garfield County Colorado, Denver News

DE BEQUE, Colorado -- A Garfield County man claiming he was poisoned by contaminants from a natural gas drilling operation wants to know what state re...

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Natural Gas Documentary Affects Garfield County Commissioners On Federal Legislation (VIDEO)

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Garfield County, Split Estate, FRAC, Natural Gas, Diana DeGette, Ken Salazar, Fracking, Halliburton, Colorado, Denver News

GLENWOOD SPRINGS -- Everyone was a film critic Monday at a somewhat tense screening of the new anti-gas-drilling documentary "Split Estate" for the Ga...

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Natural Gas Could Be A Major Bust: Analyst At Peak Oil Conference

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver

Read More: Energy, Peak Oil Conference, Arthur Berman, Domestic Energy, Oil, Natural Gas, Colorado, Denver, Denver News

DENVER — The promise of enough natural gas to last the United States more than 100 years based on discoveries of vast shale formations could be the ...

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Energy Primer for Western Colorado

Adele Israel | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Grand Junction, Oil and Gas Drilling Regulations, Natual Gas Supply, Oil Industry, Mesa State College, Natural Gas, Cogcc, Colorado School of Mines, Bureau of Land Management, Blm, Mineral Rights, Denver News
Adele Israel

After listening to seven speakers and a panel discussion at Mesa State, I may not know everything about the local fossil fuel industry, but I sure know a lot more acronyms.

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US Blocks Drilling At 60 Sites In Utah -- Approval Process Under Bush "Mishandled"

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Conservation, Natural Gas, Ken Salazar, Oil Drilling, Drilling Blocked in Utah, Utah, Green News

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oil and gas drilling will be permitted on some of the Utah land parcels near nati...

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Ritter, Scott McInnis Trade Barbs On Natural Gas Regulation

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.08.2009 | Denver

Read More: Scott McInnis, Colorado, Hogan and Hartson, Natural Gas, Bill Ritter, Denver News

EDWARDS -- Energy attorney Scott McInnis this week continued to hammer Gov. Bill Ritter for policies McInnis says have crippled Colorado's natural gas...

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Winter Heating Bill Help Coming: EIA

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas, Energy Costs, Heating Bills, Business News

WASHINGTON — Staying warm won't be quite as expensive this winter. People who heat with natural gas should do especially well, seeing their lowe...

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Natural Gas Industry Executives Come Out In Favor Of More Trasparency

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: John Pinkerton, Diana DeGette, Fracking, Range Resources, Chesapeake Energy, Natural Gas, Colorado, Safe Drinking Water Act, Aubrey McClendon, Denver News

The oil and gas industry is starting to see some cracks in its to-date united front against federal oversight of the common drilling practice known as...

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Pennsylvania Faces A Tainted Wastewater Onslaught Due To Natural Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Natural Gas Drilling, Drinking Water, Waste Water, Water, Natural Gas, Green News

Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Stee...

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