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

County will continue to offer opportunities for public input through early November

DATE: Oct 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

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

Party shift could change the fracking equation

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Trump administration rescinding rules for oil, gas drilling

CHEYENNE – President Donald Trump’s administration is rescinding proposed rules for hydraulic fracturing and other oil- and gas-drilling practices on government lands, government officials a...

DATE: Dec 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado town to regulate fracking with odor ordinance

ERIE – A Colorado town has updated its public health and safety code so it can locally regulate the oil and gas industry. The Daily Camera reports that Erie trustees on Tuesday ap...

DATE: Jul 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Bill to protect gas and oil production killed by Colorado Dems

Measure would have required payout of value if extraction restricted

DATE: Feb 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Southern Utes, BLM settle fracking lawsuit

Tribal rule will apply to process

DATE: Nov 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Anti-fracking measures fail to make November ballot

Proponents fall under threshold for valid signatures

DATE: Aug 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ballot certification underway in Colorado

Two issues approved this week; looming fracking questions stir controversy

DATE: Aug 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Gov. John Hickenlooper ‘unlikely’ to take cabinet position

Offers remarks at DNC, as protesters heckle him for supporting fracking

DATE: Jul 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

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

Passage of ballot measure would devastate economy, report says

DATE: May 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday struck down two Front Range cities’ prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing, saying state law takes precedence. And with that the focus shifts to the Novemb...

DATE: May 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Local fracking bans struck down by Colorado high court

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

DATE: May 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

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