Colorado Oil and Gas Isn’t ‘Thriving’ Even with High Prices
In Governor Polis’ January state of the state address, he claimed that the Colorado oil industry was thriving. It wasn’t true at the time, and even with the high oil prices seen today, Colorado operators aren’t leaping into the permitting queue for new wells. Colorado law has fundamentally reshaped the oil and gas industry. In […]
Colorado’s ‘Oil and Gas Wars’ Back with a Vengeance
On March 20, CPR News reported that Conservation Colorado filed four ballot measures targeting the oil and gas industry. The group calls them a direct response to Advance Colorado’s Initiative 177, which would enshrine in the state constitution a right for consumers to buy natural gas and for utilities to sell it. That framing doesn’t […]