Feds OK wells on Colo. plateau land
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Federal land managers on Friday authorized up to 1,570 new natural gas wells over the next 20 years on a 3,000-foot-high plateau prized for its energy reserves and its wildland qualities.
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Federal policy is meeting Western reality on the rangelands of Idaho, where wide-open spaces, technological glitches and bitter cold all are potential obstacles to plans to track livestock and protect the food supply from disease and bioterrorism.
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SANTA FE, N.M.  - A Texas energy company may get  rights to drill in a pristine swathe of a New Mexico national  forest after a White House task force intervened on its behalf,  a move that has become a hot issue in the battleground state  before next week's presidential election.
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A short distance from Spindletop oil field, the site of the gusher that triggered the Texas oil rush more than a century ago, scientists have found a purpose for the long-disused underground reservoirs -- as storage for the pollution emitted by burning fossil fuels.
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The U.S. Interior Department on Friday gave final approval to a plan by ConocoPhillips and partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to develop five tracts around the oil-rich Alpine field on Alaska's North Slope.
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By Andrew Villegas, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 22--Turn on your facet, and out comes the water.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 21--U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., has acquired $300,000 for the Greeley-based Central Colorado Water Conservancy District that will help district members gauge their well flows.
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Colorado is a long way from the South Pacific, but the two places are linked by a water bottling company from Basalt that was honored this week by the US State Department for its exemplary civic work in Fiji.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The Bush administration's aggressive drive to promote oil and gas drilling on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains has sparked growing anger here among traditional Republican constituents who say that the stepped-up push for energy development is sullying some of the...
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By DAVE PHILIPPS THE GAZETTE  This spring Colorado Springs will wrestle with an issue dozens of cities have already tackled: how to strike a balance between letting the public visit city-owned reservoirs and protecting drinking water.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 11--With water wells running dry and well contamination reported in some areas, Fresno County is working to secure rights to 5,000 acre-feet of water each year.
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Supporters see federal move granting greater flexibility. Critics predict more logging.
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New Mexico, Idaho, Utah and other states blessed with wide-open spaces are seeing steady population growth as increasingly cramped Americans look for ways to spread out.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  The Interior Department Board of Land Appeals has overturned the Bureau of Land Management in a controversy about oil and gas leasing in eastern Utah.
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SemGroup, L.P., announced today that Front Range Pipeline, L.L.C. will  build a crude oil pipeline extending from Colorado's  DJ Basin, an area well-known for its oil and natural gas reserves, to  Cushing, Oklahoma. The pipeline is expected to be operational by January  2009.
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The federal government and oil companies are trying to refine the process of turning oil shale into crude so that they can tap into an abundant supply on federal lands. In Autopia.
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An environmental group says oil and gas wells in five western states aren't being inspected often enough, and the inspections that are done are more likely for production than ecological concerns.