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At just 57% recovery, Greeley is only metro area that has yet to bounce back By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Nearly three years after the start of the pandemic, Greeley is the only one of Colorado’s metro areas whose economy hasn’t fully recovered, and the reason might be the same one for...
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By Frank Jordans The Associated Press BERLIN>> Insurance companies that have long said they will cover anything at the right price increasingly are ruling out fossil fuel projects because of climate change — to cheers from environmental campaigners. More than a dozen groups that track what ...
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OIL, GAS LEASES Climate damage will get new look Settlement involves government land in N.D., Montana By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration reached a legal settlement Tuesday that requires the government to reexamine potential climate damages from oil ...
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By Cathy Bussewitz The Associated Press NEW YORK » As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from Russia, have embraced a short-term fix: A series of roughly 20 floating terminals that would receive liquefied natural gas from other countries and conve...
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By Matthew Brown and Michael Phillis The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a ...
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By Sydney McDonald Broomfield Enterprise Broomfield officials have issued a notice of a potential breach to Extraction Oil & Gas regarding a March 12 fire at Interchange Pad A. An email from City and County Manager Jennifer Hoffman, which was sent Monday and released three days later on Broom...
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    Project could bring 10 trains, two miles long, through Denver daily By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post A railroad project out of Utah that would bring up to 10 oil trains, each two miles long, through Denver daily has federal approval but no clear picture of the environmental damag...
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  By Matthew Brown and Janet McConnaughey The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS » Energy companies including Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil offered a combined $192 million for drilling rights on federal oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, as the first government lease auct...
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  By Hiroko Tabuchi © The New York Times Co. Soon after Joe Biden, then a presidential candidate, released his $2 trillion climate plan last year that promised to escalate the use of clean energy in the United States, the world’s major oil and gas groups dialed up their presence on Facebook....
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Thousands of permits OK’d under old rules; some homeowners disillusioned By Judith Kohler The Denver Post A new state oil and gas law that was heralded as bringing the most sweeping changes ever to better protect public health has ushered in a new era. In some cases and some places. Colorado, a ...
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    Review of program on public lands will look at climate effects By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The U.S. Interior Department is canceling oil and gas lease sales from public lands through June amid an ongoing review of how the program contributes to climate ...
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  By Judith Kohler The Denver Post Tighter spending and the focus on free cash flow that were prevalent in the oil and gas industry before the pandemic are expected to continue even as demand and prices start to rise, two analysts said. The COVID-19 outbreak, a glut of oil and a price war b...
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By Judith Kohler The Denver Post President Joe Biden’s order issued Wednesday to pause new oil and gas leasing on public lands was praised by Coloradans who see the move as crucial to fighting climate change but was immediately met with a lawsuit by a Colorado- based industry group. The order mak...
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Oil, gas commission OKs new regulations By Judith Kohler The Denver Post After delays caused by the pandemic and a nearly full change in members, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Monday unanimously approved a broad swath of new rules seen as some of the strictest in the...
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  By Henry Fountain © The New York Times Co. In a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the Trump administration Monday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil comp...
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Shared from the 10/22/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Clifford Krauss© The New York Times Co. HOUSTON»The once mighty oil and gas industry is flailing, desperately trying to survive a pandemic that has sharply reduced demand for its products. Most companies have cut back drilling, laid off worke...
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Shared from the 10/20/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post Mark Schell’s family has farmed in Colorado since 1906 and even though he works as a certified public accountant, he hasn’t left that way of life behind. About a year ago, Schell bought a 310-acre farm in Mead t...
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Shared from the 9/29/2020 The Denver Post eEdition   By Bradley Handler, Matt Henry and Morgan BazilianThe Conversation These are very challenging times for U.S. fossil fuel-producing states, such as Wyoming, Alaska and North Dakota. The COVID-19 economic downturn has reduced energy demand, ...
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