Dennis Webb

Grand Junction

Reporter at Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Reporter, Garfield County bureau, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, specializing in energy and other natural resource issues

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Articles

Terra Energy agrees to pay $41.7 million to settle royalty suit

3 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

Terra Energy Partners has agreed to pay $41.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving some 1,600 mineral royalty owners, including some located in Mesa County. A federal magistrate judge has preliminarily approved the settlement and a federal district court judge will hold a hearing in Denver on Aug. 1 to decide whether to give final approval to it.
181 join in documenting West Slope biodiversity

6 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

The currently blooming claret cup cactus proved to be the most popular photographic subject among wild species documented by 181 people recently during the Western Slope’s first-ever participation in a 10-year-old global community science initiative known as City Nature Challenge.
Bison bill clears legislature

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

A bill that would put an end to wild bison being legally shot and killed without a license when they stray into Colorado has cleared the state legislature and is headed to the desk of Gov. Jared Polis. Senate Bill 53, which designates wild bison as big game wildlife, cleared the state House of Representatives Monday by a 40-24 vote, and the Senate previously voted 24-11 to approved it.
Suit: Area oil, gas leases no longer valid

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

A lawsuit by conservation groups contends that it’s time for the Bureau of Land Management to acknowledge that 22 decades-old federal oil and leases outside De Beque and in the upper North Fork Valley have terminated or expired under the law. The groups sued the BLM to challenge its denial of their petitions for an order recognizing the leases are no longer valid.
Hurd joins Dems in calling for rehiring of wildfire-qualified national forest staff

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

Congressman Jeff Hurd speaks about his 100 days spent in Congress and his legislative goals during the 2025 Club 20 Spring Conference at the Grand Junction Convention Center on April 26, 2025. Larry Robinson / The Daily Sentinel Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd has joined Democrats in Colorado’s congressional delegation in calling for the reinstatement of an estimated 3,000 U.S. Forest Service employees qualified to respond to wildfires.
Report faults safety lapses in 2024 West Elk Mine death

2 weeks ago | montrosepress.com | Dennis Webb

A final investigative report into the death of a worker who died in a fall at the West Elk Mine last August has pointed to safety lapses that contributed to the accident. At 12:05 a.m. on Aug. 11, 62-year-old Leonard Barnes died in the accident that occurred while he was shoveling rock from an above-ground belt conveyor at the underground coal mine in the North Fork Valley, according to the report by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Big game rebounds after harsh 2022-23 winter in NW region, state license offerings set to grow

2 weeks ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

Rachael Gonzales/Colorado Parks and WildlifeA young bull and calf stand in a field with a herd of elk during 2023-24's severe winter in the northwest corner of Colorado. Record prolonged snow pushed animals farther west and made it difficult for animals to survive, Colorado Parks and Wildlife says.
Big game rebounds after harsh 2022-23 winter in NW region, state license offerings set to grow

2 weeks ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

Big game herd numbers have bounced back strongly in far-northwest Colorado after die-offs in a severe winter two years ago, and state wildlife officials are now recommending increasing some hunting licenses in that region following drastic cutbacks aimed at helping populations rebound.
New Castle, Parachute, De Beque pitch in on effort to buy Shoshone water rights

2 weeks ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

The town of New Castle has agreed to contribute $100,000 to the Western Slope’s efforts to buy the historic Shoshone hydroelectric power plant water rights, while the towns of Parachute and De Beque also have agreed to kick in smaller amounts. The donations were announced in a news release from the Colorado River District, which is seeking to buy the water rights owned by Xcel Energy and associated with the historic power plant in Glenwood Canyon.
Report faults safety lapses in 2024 West Elk Mine death

2 weeks ago | gjsentinel.com | Dennis Webb

A final investigative report into the death of a worker who died in a fall at the West Elk Mine last August has pointed to safety lapses that contributed to the accident. At 12:05 a.m. on Aug. 11, 62-year-old Leonard Barnes died in the accident that occurred while he was shoveling rock from an above-ground belt conveyor at the underground coal mine in the North Fork Valley, according to the report by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.