Oil & Gas

December 10, 2018

Let’s have one set of rules for oil & gas

by Rodger Steen, chair of the Alliance’s Oil & Gas Committee [also appearing in the December 9 Grand Junction Daily Sentinel] The Nov. 29, 2018 letter […]
November 29, 2018

Oil & gas activists hopeful despite ballot defeat

by Emily Hornback, Staff Director Proposition 112, an initiative to move new oil and gas facilities 2,500 feet away from homes, schools, streams and other sensitive […]
November 14, 2018

With defeat of Prop 112, attention shifts to Air Quality Commission

by Dave Devanney, Battlement Mesa also printed as a Guest Commentary in the Denver Post, 11/9/2018 Oil and gas development is reaching into every nook and […]
October 19, 2018

Judge cites climate in rejecting BLM plan to double drilling

[from a joint press release with Wilderness Workshop, Western Environmental Law Center, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club] On October 17, Judge Lewis T. Babcock […]
September 10, 2018

Bring emissions control for oil and gas up to current technology

by Rodger Steen, Alliance Board member, Steamboat Springs (This article published as an op-ed in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, September 9, 2018) As the Trump […]
July 27, 2018

Taxpayers to the Oil & Gas Lobby: Time to Pay Your Back Taxes

With a billboard-sized “tax collection” notice in hand, Western Colorado Alliance held a day-of-action aimed at the oil and gas lobby in Colorado. Western Colorado Alliance […]
July 20, 2018

Battlement Mesa awaits ruling on ‘most reckless’ proposal

Battlement Concerned Citizens are enduring a summer of suspense as they await a final decision from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) on a […]
May 16, 2018

Whitewater drilling plan still flawed

In early April, the Bureau of Land Management issued a “Finding of No Significant Impact” for 108 oil wells proposed in the Grand Junction watershed. Western […]
April 16, 2018

We all deserve clean air

The state is updating clean air rules and we must ensure they protect all of Colorado Join us at an upcoming hearing and stand up for […]