fracking

Local News

Revision of La Plata County gas and oil land-use code underway

will continue to offer opportunities for public input through early November

October 8, 2022

Regional News

Backers of oil and gas drilling setbacks in Colorado lost at the ballot box, but are looking to a new blue statehouse

shift could change the fracking equation

November 12, 2018

Regional News

Trump administration rescinding rules for oil, gas drilling

Ed Andrieski/Associated Press file The rules developed under President Barack Obama would have applied mainly in the West, where most…

December 28, 2017

$Colorado town to regulate fracking with odor ordinance$

Regional News

Colorado town to regulate fracking with odor ordinance

The Daily Camera reports that Erie trustees on Tuesday approved an ordinance allowing the town to consider complaints against fracking-related…

July 26, 2017

Regional News

Bill to protect gas and oil production killed by Colorado Dems

Measure would have required payout of value if extraction restricted

February 22, 2017

$Southern Utes, BLM settle fracking lawsuit$

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Southern Utes, BLM settle fracking lawsuit

rule will apply to process

November 7, 2016

$Anti-fracking measures fail to make November ballot$

Local News

Anti-fracking measures fail to make November ballot

Proponents fall under threshold for valid signatures

August 29, 2016

Local News

Ballot certification underway in Colorado

issues approved this week; looming fracking questions stir controversy

August 20, 2016

Local News

Gov. John Hickenlooper ‘unlikely’ to take cabinet position

remarks at DNC, as protesters heckle him for supporting fracking

July 27, 2016

Regional News

Agency: Measure would put most of state off-limits to wells

Passage of ballot measure would devastate economy, report says

May 28, 2016

Editorials

Colorado Supreme Court rules that state law pre-empts local bans

In separate and unanimous decisions, the court upheld lower court decisions and overturned Fort Collins’ five-year moratorium on fracking and…

May 3, 2016

$Local fracking bans struck down by Colorado high court$

Local News

Local fracking bans struck down by Colorado high court

Lachelt: Ruling does not mean control issue will vanish from La Plata County

May 2, 2016

Local News

Activists want ballot measures to limit drilling

Falling oil and gas prices have not cooled fervor on the Front Range

March 6, 2016

Local News

Lawmakers kill bill that targeted oil and gas commission

Lawmakers kill plan to tweak regulatory commission’s mission

March 2, 2016