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• Council Set to Vote on Fracking in City Limits Play Video

  March 12, 2013 12:22 PM

  To drill or not to drill, that is the question facing Colorado Springs City Council Tuesday. Council members are voting on new regulations that would allow oil and gas drilling within city limits. In particular, the concern is over hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. The process is already permitted... more »

• City fracking ban unlikely

  January 16, 2013 1:04 AM

  COLORADO SPRINGS - Energy companies may soon be drilling for oil and natural gas near Colorado Springs neighborhoods. City Council held a work session Tuesday hear from members of the state oil and gas commission about new environmental restrictions on drilling. Oil companies have expressed interest in drilling wells... more »

• Council discusses oil and gas drilling

  January 15, 2013 7:01 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS - As part of a work session, members of the Colorado Springs City Council are hearing presentations from representatives of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) to get a better understanding of their power to regulate drilling within the city. The COGCC established new rules... more »

• Anti-fracking activists delay Boulder County rules

  December 5, 2012 8:19 AM

  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Anti-fracking activists have forced Boulder County commissioners to delay a decision on oil and gas drilling regulations. Opponents want the county to ban fracking, saying the procedure blasting water, sand and chemicals underground to free oil and natural gas is unsafe. Supporters say the procedure is... more »

• Earthquake and drilling link prompts review

  December 5, 2012 8:17 AM

  DENVER (AP) - A new report says earthquakes in Colorado and elsewhere may have been caused by a drilling procedure to dispose of wastewater. In a report being announced Wednesday, geophysicists say an increase in earthquakes on the Raton Basin in Colorado, northern New Mexico and elsewhere has been tied... more »

• Fracking Bans

  November 13, 2012 8:45 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Several Colorado communities are rallying against a measure approved by Longmont voters banning oil and gas drilling in their city. Officials in Aurora, Commerce City, Denver, Fort Collins, Lafayette and Louisville are fighting similar bans. They plan to hold a rally Tuesday at the state Capitol. Colorado... more »

• Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science

  July 22, 2012 12:37 PM

  PITTSBURGH (AP) - In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents sometimes mislead the public, too. Critics of fracking often raise alarms about groundwater pollution, air pollution and cancer risks, and there are still many uncertainties.... more »

• Colorado sportsman speaking out about fracking

  February 7, 2012 8:26 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado sportsmen are backing proposed federal rules of public disclosure of fluids used in oil and gas drilling. Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development is calling on the Bureau of Land Management to make sure water, fish and wildlife are protected when oil and gas wells are developed... more »

• Could be new fracking rules in Colorado

  November 25, 2011 8:53 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Some Colorado counties want changes in a proposed state rule that would require oil and gas companies to publicly disclose most of the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves blasting water, sand and chemicals into rock formations so oil and natural... more »

• Energy companies buying water for Colo. fracking

  November 23, 2011 12:57 PM

  DENVER (AP) - The push to extract natural gas along Colorado's Front Range depends on using another valuable natural resource water. The Denver Post reported Wednesday that oil and gas companies have purchased at least 500 million gallons of water this year for hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" along the... more »

• Is oil and gas drilling responsible for OK quakes?

  November 7, 2011 6:13 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Experts say the flurry of earthquakes in Oklahoma can't be blamed on man's thirst for oil and gas. The weekend quakes were far stronger than the weak tremors caused by drilling - especially the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. The shaking caused by... more »

• Fracking tax mix up costing Garfield Co. millions

  June 15, 2011 2:38 PM

  GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Officials in western Colorado say a tax collections mistake on materials used to hydraulically fracture shale is costing them millions. The Post Independent reported Wednesday that Garfield County officials say state revenue collectors overcollected taxes from energy development firms from 2002 to 2005. ... more »

• Governor Hickenlooper backs hydraulic fracturing in oil drilling

  April 1, 2011 12:27 PM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Gov. John Hickenlooper is backing hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas drilling. But he says companies should disclose what chemicals they use in their fracturing fluids. Hickenlooper made the comments Thursday during a visit to Glenwood Springs. Fracturing fluid is mostly sand and water... more »

• EPA wants to know chemicals used in gas drilling

  September 10, 2010 8:53 AM

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking nine natural gas service companies to voluntarily list the chemicals used in the process that extracts natural gas from deep below the earth. The federal agency said Thursday that the data is key to its study of the health impact of hydraulic... more »

• EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues

  July 21, 2010 11:59 AM

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing this week for a third round of hearings - this time in Canonsburg, Pa. - on the controversial natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." A wealth of natural gas is locked into the Marcellus Shale deep beneath Pennsylvania, New... more »