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PRO 15
The renewable energy, or cleantech, industry has become an important part of the Colorado economy over the past 15 years. Colorado’s eastern plains have significant resource potential, notably wind energy, and have attracted the vast majority of renewable energy investment activity in the state. As policymakers and energy companies have pursued renewable energy projects and clean technologies, the renewable energy industry has become increasingly important to the local economy in eastern Colorado. For this study, eastern Colorado consists of eastern Arapahoe County, and all of Bent, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Prowers, Pueblo, and Weld counties.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Institute for 21st Century Energy
Assessing the Impact of Potential New Carbon Regulations in the United States," illustrates the impacts associated with an EPA regime modeled on the Obama Administration's stated emissions reductions goal. To obtain the most accurate modeling and analysis possible for the report, we commissioned the respected global energy and economics firm IHS.
Business Research Division, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
The purpose of this study is to provide objective, third-party insight into the economic impacts of a statewide fracking ban on the Colorado economy. This paper provides an overview of the political landscape surrounding the industry, quantifies the current production and economic activities as reported via public sources, and quantifies the economic impacts of a statewide ban on fracking activities.
This report compares how local governments receive production tax revenue from unconventional oil extraction across seven major oil-producing states. It includes fiscal data and analysis for Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.Headwaters Economics
Headwater Economics in Conjunction with Oklahoma Policy Institute
This report compares Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas tax policies to other leading oil and natural gas producing states. Oil comparison states are Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Natural gas comparison states are Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming.
Analysis applies state tax policies to average production data for typical unconventional oil and natural gas wells to determine comparable effective tax rates. Both unconventional oil and natural gas wells typically feature high initial rates of production that decline steeply and quickly, and eventually stabilize at relatively low levels. The respective production profiles for unconventional oil and natural gas wells are consistent enough across shale plays to offer a sound basis for comparing how states tax policies raise revenue from these new resources.
Business Research Division of the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder
This study quantified the economic and fiscal contributions of Colorado's oil and gas industry in 2012. The oil and gas industry generated $29.6 billion output in Colorado's economy and directly contributed almost $1.6 billion to public revenue in 2012.
Western Governors' Association
The 10-Year Energy Vision is a set of regional goals and objectives the Governors have agreed should guide energy development, use and energy policy in the West. This report is meant to be a guide and it is not intended to supersede individual state energy plans. The report demonstrates bipartisan cooperation on energy and environmental issues that can serve as a useful basis for a national energy plan.
Western Governors' Association
This report features essays authored by individual Western Governors and Canadian Premiers on different topics on energy. In each essay, the authoring Governor or Premier provides insights gained from their efforts to best serve the priorities of their constituents. The topics range from the importance of coal as a fuel and driver of economic growth for the state of Wyoming to the urgent need for greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change policy for the state of California.
Western Governors' Association
Western energy resources are vast and diverse. To inform the development and implementation of the 10-Year Energy Vision, this report provides a factual account of energy resources and issues in the West. The central feature is a thorough overview of energy resource reserves and extraction, the infrastructure used to transport electricity and energy commodities, and the utilization of energy resources and technologies in the region. The book also discusses the importance of energy literacy and the potential of several promising energy technologies currently on the horizon.
>American Petroleum Institute
America runs on energy. Every moment of every day, energy is required for Americans to maintain their daily lives, and the majority of that energy is supplied by oil and natural gas. Oil and natural gas are integral to all aspects of the U.S. economy—and America's economic recovery—as the success of any modern economy is dependent on reliable and affordable energy. Over the last 100 years, and well into the foreseeable future, oil and natural gas have and will continue to provide the energy America needs to succeed.
Headwater Economics
How oil and gas resources are taxed and how the revenue is distributed and invested are the cornerstones of balancing positive and negative impacts of energy development. Across the country, there are various approaches to taxing oil and natural gas activity, and to spending, sharing, and saving these revenues. In no case has any single state put together a complete package of fiscal “best practices.” Yet each state employs part of a viable fiscal solution and can learn from what others are doing.
Idaho National Laboratory
"The U.S. is facing conventional oil and gas reserve declines, increased demand, increased foreign dependency, resource nationalization, price volatility, underinvestment in infrastructure, changing domestic production policy." It also goes on to say, "Energy development within the Energy Corridor will require integrating, optimizing and stewarding a diverse set of domestic (and N. American) energy resources, interconnected by a dependable delivery infrastructure, and development in an environmentally progressive manner." The Western Energy Corridor could boost plans for a North American energy resource pact.