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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved what the agency is calling the nation’s strongest rules for requiring bonding or other financial assurance to cover the
When rancher Don Lumbardy years ago discovered a flag on Bureau of Land Management land 50 feet beyond his fence line, it turned out to be an early indication of
When rancher Don Lumbardy years ago discovered a flag on Bureau of Land Management land 50 feet beyond his fence line, it turned out to be an early indication of
A defunct company that once hoped to drill more than 100 oil wells south of Palisade and east of Whitewater was fined nearly $853,000 by the Colorado Oil and Gas
By RICH ALWARD In 2020, Sen. Michael Bennet introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate to address a growing issue in oil and gas development. The bill (S. 4642) provided for more funding for cleaning up âorphanedâ wells and brought bonding requirements into line with the actual costs of plugging and reclaiming wells. This was an important and timely bill and I thank Sen. Bennet for his leadership on this issue and ask him to reintroduce his bill in 2021. Energy development, and the resultant âenergy sprawlâ of roads, pipelines, and transmission corridors, is the dominant cause o...