Profit, Geology Driving Oil & Gas
Drilling to Private Land
As the 112th Congress gaveled to a close last January, many wondered if Washington D.C.’s toxic political environment would continue to compromise popular land conservation bills. Setting aside lands for hunters and anglers, hikers and backpackers, mountain bikers and horseback riders is a uniquely American phenomenon that has remained a bipartisan endeavor for more than [...] continue reading
As the number of oil and gas wells in the West continues to skyrocket, there’s a new front line in the battle over the siting of new drilling. Our national parks—the most celebrated of all protected lands—are increasingly threatened by fracking, according to a new report by the National Parks Conservation Association. NPCA Vice President [...] continue reading
If oil spills in the forest, and nobody is there to see it, does it still cause damage? The answer of course is yes, and a new audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reveals that problems with oil and gas oversight by the U.S. Forest Service puts our [...] continue reading
DENVER –The Department of Interior released new hydraulic fracturing rules today amid questions over the role oil and gas companies played in their creation. Multiple reports show that the oil and gas industry gained special access to the rulemaking process in recent months. The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from Trevor Kincaid [...]
DENVER, CO – The Center for Western Priorities’ Trevor Kincaid released the following statement in response to the Western Energy Alliance’s national telephone survey. “The survey comes from a special interest group that is backed by millions of dollars from oil and gas companies. It’s no surprise that the few findings publicly released were rhetoric [...]
Every year the oil and gas industry is responsible for thousands of spills across the Western United States. In Colorado alone, hundreds of spills during 2012 contaminated surface waters, groundwater and agricultural land. Impacted communities struggled with a lack of prompt notification after spills and without legal authority to control drilling within their community. This [...]
