Rep. Marilyn Musgrave sent a letter Tuesday asking atomic energy regulators to consider water quality as they decide whether to allow uranium mining in Larimer and Weld counties.
Musgrave, R-Colo., said she’s heard from residents concerned about water quality as a Canadian company prepares to prospect for uranium near the town of Nunn.
Powertech Uranium Corp. last [...]
A state judge denied a request by two environmental groups to temporarily stop test drilling for uranium in Fall River County.
Circuit Judge Jack Delaney said at a hearing Tuesday that the groups had not shown how continuing the exploration would harm the environment.
Defenders of the Black Hills and ACTion for the Environment are challenging a [...]
A conservation group is suing to stop energy exploration in a national wildlife refuge next to the Great Sand Dunes National Park in south-central Colorado.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court by the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council claims that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated federal law by failing to conduct an [...]
A conservation group is suing to stop energy exploration in a national wildlife refuge next to the Great Sand Dunes National Park in south-central Colorado.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court by the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council claims that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated federal law by failing to conduct an [...]
The federal government gave its approval Monday for the reopening of an oil-shale mine in Utah, one of the experimental works intended to boost domestic oil production on Western lands.
A top-ranking Interior Department official signed off on the project, and officials said an Alabama-based partnership, Oil Shale Exploration Co., would be offered a lease to [...]
Wyoming’s largest electrical utility, Rocky Mountain Power, is the likely partner in a Wyoming-sponsored effort to launch a coal-gasification demonstration project.
The Wyoming Infrastructure Authority, which is spearheading the project, announced Tuesday it would conduct a special meeting today to discuss a draft memorandum of understanding with Rocky Mountain Power, formerly PacifiCorp.
The intent is to align [...]
The Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation on Thursday approved two injection wells for a Wyoming-based company that proposes pumping groundwater produced by coal-bed methane drilling back into the ground.
Pinnacle Gas Resources Inc. initially sought permits for four injection wells but said one well got delayed because of weather and, for the time being, [...]
Recent additions to the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council have all come from the oil and gas industry, which could hinder the council on matters regarding water discharge — a key element of the state’s energy industry.
When terms for three of the seven-member council expired at the end of January, Freudenthal appointed Craig Newman, David [...]
DENVER - Deb Meader said she never considered the potential health impacts when gas drilling rigs started springing up around Parachute.
Over the past 10 years, she said, she has suffered weakness, nauseous and burning eyes, and her granddaughter was born with congenital defects.
Two of her friends with a well in their back yard died of [...]
GREEN RIVER - A small exploratory drilling project proposed for the Wyoming Range in north Sublette County is spotlighting the conflict between energy development and preservation in western Wyoming.
Conservationists and others are objecting to the drilling project and say oil and gas development doesn’t belong within the Bridger-Teton National Forest’s Wyoming Range. They view [...]
