The Keystone pipeline is like a gigantic hypodermic needle stuck into America. Its promoters know we are addicted to the wrong drug -- fossil fuels -- but they know we do not have the willpower to kick the habit as long as the pushers find new ways to slip us one more fix.
What is the right wing really worried about? Perhaps they fear they won't prevail when these films pose a choice between industrial exploitation of the environment for maximum profit, regardless of the consequences, versus protecting the Earth's natural resources in perpetuity.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ā Poland's treasury minister said Thursday that the country may start producing shale gas for commercial use in 2014, a move tha...
The recent boom in domestic oil and gas development, spurred by new technologies in geologic interpretation, horizontal drilling, completion techniqu...
Lamborn's bill actually creates a new taxpayer-funded subsidy for companies like Shell by allowing cuts to royalties and shifting basic infrastructure and services costs onto the backs of struggling local governments.
DENVER (AP) ā The federal government's new plan for oil shale development on public lands would keep activity off thousands of acres of environmenta...
Your Highness, just in case you have not been doing Your sums consider the following: where natural gas and crude oil were traditionally priced in tandem almost step by step, with the vast new supplies of natural gas here, that relationship has now changed dramatically.
WASHINGTON -- Last Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final research plan to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing on dr...
Instead of subsidizing industries that anchor us in the past, we should be investing in the kinds of clean energy solutions that prepare us for the future.
There's no question many of us doubt the oil and gas industry's assurances that 'fracking,' the method used to extract oil deposits from shale, is a 1...
While a fracking safety panel might seem a step in the right direction, it falls short of what is truly needed right now: a nationwide moratorium on until thorough scientific studies are conducted to assess the risks posed by fracking.
For more than 100 years, oil boosters have promised that pulling oil out of rock-solid kerogen formations in the West would be easy, and the region would be awash in jobs and eternal economic prosperity if we only tapped it.
The federal Bureau of Land Management announced on Wednesday that it is prepared to begin a process to take a fresh look at commercial oil shale devel...
While the mere mention of Halliburton may provoke a lot of ranting, we really need to see why it's so successful. The reason is pretty simple: We're just not moving fast enough towards other sources of energy.
It's likely that the nation's oil shale states have enough water to start an energy industry based on the rock, but it would soon have to compete wi...
Eyebrows were raised over the weekend when Colorado's Statewide Water Supply Initiative released a report that predicted the state will have difficult...
For generations my family has ranched in northwest Colorado, raising cattle and producing crops. Our lives would of course be much different if not for one critical resource: clean, plentiful water.
Observers in western Colorado, including Garfield County, have been closely watching the increasing corporate and governmental activity aimed at reviv...
We have a new national narrative of resource urgency unfolding before our eyes -- the impending collision between water and energy. None of the big en...