Energy on Friday October 30, 2009

CO: Plan to drill on Colorado plateau meets resistance
By Sean Patrick Farrell, The New York Times
RIFLE, Colo. — Standing in a canyon in hilly terrain, Ken Neubecker cast his fly into a cold stream. Minutes later he had a bite. Thrashing at the end of his line was a speckled green fish, a scarce Colorado cutthroat trout.
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NY: Feisty audience tackles natural gas drilling report
By Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica
At the first public hearing of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's review of natural gas drilling, one speaker summed up the sentiment of many in Sullivan County, which is likely to see much of the drilling in the state.
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CO: Udall risks enviro wrath by floating bill to boost nuclear industry
By David O. Williams , Colorado Independent
Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall Wednesday took his boldest step yet on the road to a national nuclear renaissance as part of a program designed to combat global warming.
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FL: Cash cow or curse? Drilling experts offer familiar promises, warnings
By Jim Ash, Tallahassee Democrat
Offshore drilling would bring 20,000 new jobs and $2 billion a year to Florida, or it would doom a $60-billion-a-year industry that draws millions of tourists to Florida's pristine beaches.
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MO: DNR demotes three managers in ongoing agency shuffle
By Terry Ganey, Columbia Daily Tribune
Three top officials of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources lost their management jobs late yesterday as part of a continuing shakeup of the agency.
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NV: Alternate energy- $90 million steaming to Nevada
By Benjamin Spillman, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Federal money is on the way to help companies develop as much energy from the ground in Nevada as Hoover Dam generates from the Colorado River.
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OH: FirstEnergy requests waiver in battle of bulbs
By Jim Provance, Toledo Blade
Between all the finger-pointing over who was to blame, FirstEnergy Corp. yesterday suggested an alternative to its mandatory light-bulb replacement program that had consumers across northern Ohio in an uproar.
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WY: Laramie Range fund will compete with wind for leases
By Dustin Bleizeffer, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne)
The Northern Laramie Range Alliance announced it will establish a tax-exempt corporation to buy up state leases in order to prevent the development of wind energy.
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