Colorado’s oil & gas industry faces more regulation with emissions-cutting rules
By Ed Sealover | The Sum & Substance
Colorado officials are advancing rules to cut carbon emissions in yet another sector — this time in the midstream sector of the oil and gas industry, a battleground area in which both industry and environmental leaders worry already about the proposed regulations.
The midstream sector is comprised of the pipelines and facilities that transport natural gas from wells to the transmission companies that distribute it to power plants and homes. A key part of the sector — which is made up in Colorado of three major players and a couple dozen smaller companies — is the compression plants that keep the gas moving down long pipelines to its destinations.
As part of efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030, state officials have put rules i...
