Synergy Resources Corporation, a development-stage oil and gas exploration and production company, today announced that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission had granted seven (7) drilling permits for wells included in leases for which Synergy has the option to purchase. The permits, granted on October 9, 2008, are for the Meyer prospect in Greeley, [...]

Six nominees to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, including a Garfield County representative, were confirmed by a Senate committee on Tuesday, despite protests from Republicans that they weren’t given enough information on their views.
The six were nominated by Gov. Bill Ritter after lawmakers expanded and revamped the commission to make it more responsive [...]

Lawmakers who are looking at revamping the way the state regulates the booming oil and gas business are listening to the industry’s concerns, but that won’t stop the proposal from moving ahead, Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald said Wednesday.
Industry representatives want some clarification about what the changes will mean for them, she said.
“It’s energy independence, we [...]

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 [...]

DENVER - A House committee approved a measure Wednesday that would require the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to set rules to protect public health in oil and gas operations and bar drilling until those rules have been followed.
The bill would also require the commission to work with the Colorado Department of Public Health [...]

DENVER - Wildlife groups expressed concern Tuesday over Colorado’s booming oil and gas industry and the impact on wildlife, saying state regulators are “stretching the science and the art” without understanding the long-term impact of widespread drilling operations.
Lawmakers on the state House Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Committee responded by giving their approval to a [...]

The release of a federal study that could lead to drilling around the site of a 1969 underground nuclear blast in western Colorado has been delayed until late spring.
The computer-modeling study gauges whether radioactive byproducts have migrated from the blast site near Rulison and whether drilling in the area could affect the underground movement of [...]

Aiming to balance development and wildlife on the scenic Roan Plateau in western Colorado, the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday proposed restrictions to oil and gas drilling but didn’t agree to make the top of the plateau off limits.
The rugged plateau about 150 miles west of Denver has some of the country’s richest natural [...]