oil and gas

Montezuma County residents questioned commissioners about replacing millions in lost Kinder Morgan tax revenue during a community town hall in Dolores.

Montezuma County Assessor Leslie Bugg gave a grim report to the county commissioners Monday about revenues.

The Colorado River Wildfire Collaborative hired a program manager to raise funds for mitigation work between Glenwood Springs and De Beque. That region is one of the most fire-prone in the state, and has lacked the resources to address the risk.

Advocates say Trump’s ‘national energy emergency’ is boosting fossil fuels, cutting public input, and undermining renewables on public lands.

New polling shows most Utahns oppose proposals to expand oil and gas drilling on public lands, despite efforts by the U.S. House to overhaul Biden-era restrictions and the Bureau of Land Management’s actions.

Hovenweep National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border is one of ten monuments in the Southwest that are at risk of losing federal protections.

The Montezuma County commissioners have voted to join several other counties in suing the state of Colorado over its use of the severance-tax fund.

At a Shiprock Chapter meeting this Wednesday, officials will vote on a resolution that calls for independent oversight of cleanup efforts after an oil spill north of town. Residents held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the ramifications of the spill and the community-drafted resolution, which also requests an investigation into the cause of the incident by both the U.S. EPA and the New Mexico Environment Department. Last month, a pipeline that transports crude oil from New Mexico to Aneth, Utah, was breached by a grading truck on agricultural land. The pipeline is operated by a subsidiary of Navajo Nation Oil and Gas, which is a tribal enterprise. Beverly Maxwell and other Navajo residents who live near the spill are frustrated with what they describe as a lack of communication from local and national tribal authorities about details of the still-ongoing cleanup.

A new bill approved at the Colorado State House would give psychologists the power to prescribe medication to patients. House Bill 1071 is sponsored by Republican State Senator Cleave Simpson, who represents House District 6. And state regulators say there are almost 500 orphan wells across Colorado. The abandoned drilling sites continue to release greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. government, environmentalists and an energy company have reached a settlement over contested oil and gas leases in an area held sacred by Native American tribes.