Mark Jaffe has been a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Bloomberg News and The Denver Post. He was also previously a Paris correspondent for Businessweek.
In a decade of covering the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, I have never seen it faced with bigger challenges and seemingly so ill-equipped to cope with them.
Colorado's "forced-pooling" statute enables an oil and gas company to buy a property ownerâs mineral rights even if the owner doesnât want to sell or lease them.