Gas and Oil

Local News

Local gas prices buck national trend

flat here, at three-month low nationwide

July 17, 2014

$Governor: No special session on fracking$

Regional News

Governor: No special session on fracking

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis seeks tougher rules at ballot box

July 16, 2014

Local News

Gas prices climbing in Durango

tourism industry unaffected, official says

June 19, 2014

Nation & World

Feds fail to inspect high-risk wells

on fracking, methane emissions expected to be issued

May 10, 2014

Local News

Energy firm plans to invest $344M in Montezuma County

Morgan pipeline expenditures are put at $327 million

May 7, 2014

$Traffic deaths rise in fracking boom$

Nation & World

Traffic deaths rise in fracking boom

measures can’t keep up with growths in population

May 4, 2014

Local News

College foundation rejects divestment

says dropping fossil-fuel holdings would be hypocritical

April 29, 2014

Local News

Legislators put aside gas and oil tax bill

to be addressed after Nov. election

April 23, 2014

Local News

Students ask FLC to drop fossil-fuel investments

Divestiture backers deliver petition for cause

April 22, 2014

Nation & World

Trying to combat growing drug trade in oil patch

What they uncovered was a large-scale methamphetamine ring that had found a home in a state long known for its…

April 12, 2014

Local News

Critics plug oil-pipeline bill

Until recent weeks, most opponents of the bill were Northeast Colorado conservatives concerned with property rights. But it was opponents…

April 2, 2014

Local News

New drilling in the works for our neck of the woods

Coal-bed methane is the target product for Texas company

March 31, 2014

Business

Western Slope oil-shale search resumes

Projects’ aim is to see if commercial-scale development is feasible

March 18, 2014

Local News

Eminent-domain fight creates an odd alliance

party, environmentalists battling energy companies

March 11, 2014

Business

Four Corners air-quality improvements expected

Gas-and-oil wells and power plants will cut pollutants

March 10, 2014

Local News

Governor Hickenlooper lauds gas-and-oil cleanup measure

La Plata Energy Council testified against new rules

February 24, 2014

Local News

Should Colorado’s air-quality rules be tougher?

industry pollution to be debated

February 14, 2014

$Study on fracking causes uproar$

Local News

Study on fracking causes uproar

officials question connection to birth defects

February 8, 2014

$Dems kill effort to limit aid to towns that ban fracking$

Local News

Dems kill effort to limit aid to towns that ban fracking

would have cut off revenues from drilling tax to some Front Range towns

January 22, 2014

Local News

Critics to keep eye on drilling in 2014

issue: Unused paint

January 7, 2014

Local News

Colorado gets shorted on gas and oil royalties

Montezuma County, with its carbon-dioxide production on public lands, is one of the biggest losers among the state’s local governments,…

December 23, 2013

Business

BP pushes limits to tap extreme fields

years after Gulf disaster, firm is moving into deeper water

December 7, 2013

Local News

San Juan oil drilling heats up in N.M.

and Huntington explore in Colorado

December 7, 2013

Local News

Durango gas prices stuck

costs fall around the West, they refuse to budge here

December 2, 2013