December 2, 2009
posted on: Dec 02, 2009
IPAMS Meetings and Announcements
IPAMS Holiday Open House
December 9, 2009
Please join us for our Holiday Open House from on Wednesday, December 9th from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the IPAMS office. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
No R.S.V.P. required.
Secretary Salazar Responds to IPAMS
Last Tuesday, November 24th, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar held a press conference to respond to IPAMS position papers on DOI mismanagement of the federal onshore program and the handling of Utah leases.
IPAMS issued a statement after the press conference stating that “We are all accountable to the American public to ensure that responsible development occurs. As such, we don’t believe it’s unreasonable to ask the Department of Interior to explain the rationale for its decisions and express concern when trends are not headed in the right direction.”
The publicity generated gave us the opportunity to repeat our points across a variety of media including the E&E News, Oil & Gas Journal, Denver Post, Grand Junction Sentinel, and the Casper Star Tribune.
IPAMS has made a concerted effort this year to ensure we share the nineteen position papers and reports we’ve generated this year with cooperating trade associations, think tanks, and other policy organizations so that our messages are coordinated and echoed by others. This has paid off, as groups such as the Institute for Energy Research (IER) immediately issued a press release after the press conference backing our points up with even more research, and has a great web page refuting many of the points made by Secretary Salazar, and giving us support.
We have contacted Salazar’s office to discuss directly with them and to try to set up a meeting. We are also working with the offices of the Governors of Wyoming and Utah to have them address the issues with Salazar directly, particularly on unissued leases.
Building The Case
IPAMS has worked diligently in 2009 with key Democrats, especially those in the Western Congressional Delegation, to ensure they understand that abundant and affordable natural gas offers an immediate solution for the goals of Congress and the Obama Administration to increase energy security while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. IPAMS has consistently reached out to policy and opinion makers with this message all year – from our Washington Call-Up, to our PAC activity, media outreach, and continued efforts to educate Congress through the end of the year – and we are seeing our strategy pay off!
Senators Udall, Bennet, Dorgan and Conrad, along with our Western Republican Senators, have publically supported increasing the use of natural gas, and many of our delegation house members have joined together in a Natural Gas Caucus to promote natural gas-favorable policies. The latest is an op-ed in Roll Call by Senator Mark Udall, but many other expressions of support that have resulted in large part from IPAMS efforts can be seen on IPAMS “Building the Case” webpage.
IPAMS Request for Proposals – Legal Work for Lease Sale Protest Responses
IPAMS would like to ensure industry maintains a voice in lease sales across the Intermountain West by responding to protests for each sale in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. IPAMS is requesting proposals from firms to provide the following support:
* Develop a template for responding to lease sale protests
* Track lease sales and protest deadlines
* Identify protesting parties and the main issues being protested
* Identify points of response
* Use the template to submit letters for each sale on behalf of IPAMS.
Proposals should outline your firm’s approach to completing the work, cost breakdown, relevant experience, and key personnel biographies. Firms are asked to scale the work to an appropriate level for IPAMS non-profit status. Identifying volunteer work done for IPAMS will be viewed favorably. Proposals are required by December 7th. Proposals will be reviewed on the 7th, and select companies will be invited to give a fifteen minute presentation to the selection task force on December 9th at 1:00. IPAMS is also requesting member volunteers to help review proposals on the 7th and meet on December 9th at 1:00 for proposal presentations. Please contact Kathleen Sgamma with questions or to volunteer for the selection task force.
IPAMS 10th Annual Washington Call-UP
March 1-3, 2010
The IPAMS 2010 Washington Call-up is one of the most important business trips you can make this year. Sure, you’ll build valuable contacts while you are in the nation’s capital, but you will also help ensure a long-term opportunity for our industry.
IPAMS helps to empower you to lead focused discussions directly with policymakers and their staff. IPAMS provides materials and coaching, but we rely on your expertise and experience in business to make the case for public policy that will foster the increased use and development of natural gas.
Each year, we encourage Call-up participants to invite a landowner or local government official from a community where they are doing business.
The Western natural gas and oil industry has answers for many of America’s most pressing economic, environmental and energy security challenges. Unfortunately, not everyone in Congress is aware of the solutions our industry provides. Many don’t know that we are facing an onslaught of bad policy ideas that could stymie domestic development for decades. The IPAMS Call-up is the perfect opportunity for you to speak directly to the policymakers who will shape the future with their votes.
Please don’t miss this historic opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with your friends in the oil and natural gas industry to make our voices heard in Washington.
Please contact Becca Ness with any questions.
Other Upcoming Meetings
* Call-Up Committee – December 7th at 1:00 p.m.
* Utah Basin Advisors Network – December 8th at 10:00 a.m.
* Legislative, Legal and Regulatory – December 9th at 10:00 a.m.
* Tax Committee – December 10th at 2:30 p.m.
* Colorado Basin Advisors Network – December 17th at 10:00 a.m.
Agendas are available for upcoming meetings at http://www.ipams.org/advocacy/. All meetings unless otherwise indicated are Mountain time, and at IPAMS and via teleconference.
Visit ipams.org for the latest news affecting the Intermountain West’s oil and natural gas industry. Headlines are updated daily from local, national and international news sources. You may also sign up for daily newsbrief emails under the Manage Account section of the “Members Only” page.
The West
Pipelines push value of Rockies gas
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 11/28/2009 by: Dennis Webb
Jim Zadvorny remembers a time a little more than a year ago when it was difficult to basically even give away natural gas produced in the Rockies. “There were Rockies trades for 1 cent (per million British thermal units) one day in 2008,” said Zadvorny, group leader for gas marketing at EnCana Oil & Gas (USA), a major producer of gas in western Colorado’s Piceance Basin.
Colorado
CO state gas board doubles life of drilling permits to 2 years
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 12/01/2009 by: Dennis Webb
The clock will now run longer for oil and gas companies to act on drilling permits approved by the state. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Monday agreed to an industry request to make permits good for two years rather than one. Jep Seman, legal counsel for the Colorado Petroleum Association, said the industry is pleased by the decision.
Garfield County still wondering how to handle pit liners
published in: Glenwood Springs Post Independent on: 11/30/2009 by: John Colson
Now that the state has decided to stick to rules requiring disposal of “pit liners” used to contain holding ponds next to gas drilling pads, Garfield County is trying to figure out what it should do with the expected influx of liners. The county’s oil and gas liaison official, Judy Jordan, announced at the Nov. 5 meeting of the county’s Energy Advisory Board that a state agency announced recently that the pit liners must be disposed of in accordance with solid waste regulations, in keeping with current regulations.
Williams to expand drilling on W. Slope
published in: Denver Post on: 11/26/2009 by: Mark Jaffe
Williams Companies Inc., Colorado’s largest natural-gas producer, is planning to expand its Western Slope operations in 2010. Tulsa, Okla.-based Williams is looking to raise the number of rigs operating in the Pi ceance Basin to 12 from eight, according to company executives. As early as January, Williams will add a rig at its newly acquired Piceance Valley field south of Newcastle, said company spokeswoman Donna Gray.
No agreement yet in Roan gas development
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 11/26/2009 by: Dennis Webb
A second court-ordered settlement conference aimed at resolving litigation over oil and gas development on the Roan Plateau near Rifle has failed to produce an agreement. Court documents indicate the conference focused partly on the idea of phased oil and gas leasing on the plateau top.
Gubernatorial hopefuls target Colo. energy rules
published in: Associated Press on: 11/25/2009 by: Judith Kohler
One Republican in the race to become Colorado’s next governor is pledging to repeal new oil and gas regulations if elected, and the front-runner for the GOP nomination says he would consider abolishing the rules approved on the Democratic incumbent’s watch. Evergreen businessman Dan Maes told The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction on Monday that he would quickly try to abolish the rules if elected. A spokesman for former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, a 12-year Colorado congressman who has been the leading GOP fundraiser, says the candidate would consider revamping the rules after talking to interest groups.
Montana
Oil activity shows signs of more life in eastern Montana
published in: Great Falls Tribune on: 11/23/2009 by: Jo Dee Black
Oil well drilling rigs are moving back into the fields in eastern Montana, boosting local optimism about the economic future of the energy business in the area. “Oil drilling in Montana had never entirely gone away, but our rig count was down to about two or three, and right now we are up to four or five,” said Tom Richmond of the Montana Board of Oil and Gas. “The biggest operations all have wells to drill, and there are probably about a dozen active in that general area right now.”
North Dakota
Bakken overdrive
published in: Oilweek Magazine on: 12/01/2009 by: Paul Stastny
Scott Saxberg´s office reflects the confidence, order, and level-headed professionalism he conveys in spades as president and chief operating officer of Crescent Point Energy Corp., this Oilweek´s 2009 Producer of the Year. The centrepiece of this domain is a prominent desk set against a curtain of glass. Off to the side, there´s a meeting table with chairs. But if you´re looking for something as a conversational icebreaker-say a wall of family pictures or a personal artifact-you won´t readily find it.
Regs mandate more info for ND oil-patch landowners
published in: Associated Press on: 11/30/2009 by: Dale Wetzel
North Dakota regulators are moving to strengthen oil production rules to give landowners more information about accidents and plans to reclaim their property when the oil pumping stops. The proposed rules, which are likely to take effect next spring, would require oil rig operators to notify surface landowners about most accidents — such as an oil spill or salt water spill — that affect their land. Operators would have to provide copies of any reports about an incident to any affected property owner.
Another new oil formation for North Dakota?
published in: Associated Press on: 11/23/2009 by: James MacPherson
A crude-bearing cache known as the Birdbear, beneath North Dakota’s already booming oil patch, can be tapped using new technology that would expand horizontal drilling to parts of the state that have never seen it, geologists believe. The Birdbear is a thin oil formation — only a few feet — locked within muddy limestone and dolomite more than 2 miles underground, immediately beneath the rich Bakken shale and Three Forks-Sanish formations in North Dakota, said Julie LeFever, a geologist with the state Geological Survey in Grand Forks.
Utah
Trial set for man accused of bogus oil-lease bidding
published in: Deseret News on: 12/01/2009 by: Emiley Morgan
A trial date has been set in the case of a University of Utah student accused of throwing a monkey wrench in a federal oil- and gas-lease auction by making bogus bids. The case of Tim DeChristopher, 27, will go before a jury in a three-day trial starting March 15. DeChristopher was indicted earlier this year on charges of providing a false statement and violating the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act during an auction held by the Bureau of Land Management in December 2008 where he won 14 parcels of land worth $1.7 million that he never intended to pay for.
Utah auction draws few oil and gas drillers
published in: PR Business Register on: 11/20/2009 by: Staff
Drillers say it’s getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren’t bothering to show up for auctions. The criticism came after the government held an auction of public lands in Utah that was remarkable for how few parcels were offered or sold. Only five drilling leases sold Tuesday.
Request for 2010 Sponsorship of IPAMS Utah Representative Lowell Braxton
IPAMS is seeking your company’s support to continue IPAMS Utah Representative Lowell Braxton’s sponsorship through 2010. Lowell has served as IPAMS’ Utah representative for four years now. This past year, Lowell served a crucial role in IPAMS’ response to several significant issues in Utah and his efforts go to ensure that our members’ voices are being heard at all levels of government. Lowell’s efforts are not possible without the generous support from our member companies, so if Utah is part of your company’s business plan for 2010, we hope you’ll seriously consider sponsoring Lowell.
Please contact Spencer Kimball or call 303-623-0987 as soon as possible to indicate your company’s willingness to sponsor Lowell Braxton.
Click here to read some of Lowell’s 2009 accomplishments.
Wyoming
WY federal oil, gas sale nets $3M
published in: Casper Star-Tribune on: 12/02/2009 by: Staff
Developers and speculators paid a total of nearly $3 million for 54 federal oil and natural gas lease parcels in a competitive auction here Tuesday. The federal leases total 42,879 acres throughout Wyoming, according to a media release. The sale did not include 15 oil and gas lease parcels within a citizens’ proposed wilderness area at Adobe Town in south-central Wyoming.
New group considers CBM rules
published in: Billings Gazette/Casper Star-Tribune on: 12/01/2009 by: Dustin Bleizeffer
Landowners and coalbed methane gas operators will meet in Gillette on Wednesday in yet another new working group formed to address policy concerns regarding coalbed methane water. It’s the most recent effort in a 10-year series of working groups, advisory boards and task forces attempting to tackle a long list of environmental and property right concerns regarding the practice of dumping the water on the surface. “Yet here we are still. … It’s the same ride with the same people,” said Campbell County rancher Eric Barlow.
Wyoming BLM will have fewer oil, gas lease auctions next year
published in: Gillette News-Record on: 11/27/2009 by: Steve McManamen
The Wyoming Bureau of Land Management is reducing the number of oil and gas lease auctions in the state from six to four in 2010, citing a lack of interest in drilling from industry as a cause. There have been significantly fewer lease sales in Wyoming in 2009 compared to 2008, illustrating the dispute the oil and gas industry has been having with the U.S. Interior Department. Industry officials believe that the department is unnecessarily withholding public lands from oil and gas development.
Wyoming Pipeline Authority Public Meeting Notice
December 10, 2009
The WPA will be holding a meeting on adequacy of natural gas pipeline and storage infrastructure in Wyoming to support gas fired power generation.
The meeting will be held at 1:00 p.m. (note time change) on December 10, 2009 at the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Building (2211 King Boulevard, Casper, WY)
Contact Brian Jeffries, Executive Director or Colby Drechsel or call (307) 237-5009.
Washington Watch
Financial reform debate may influence future of cap and trade
published in: E&E News/New York Times on: 12/02/2009 by: Katherine Ling
The decision to take up financial regulatory reform before a climate bill in the Senate could have significant implications for the choice of a “trade” mechanism as the vehicle of choice to meet emission targets. The House-passed climate bill and the version from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee rely on markets and trading to help companies meet their greenhouse gas emission limits. The financial regulatory reform measures are aimed at restoring confidence and security to those markets, especially the over-the-counter derivatives market where much of the bad debt that sent the economy in a downward spiral occurred.
Blacks, Browns missing from ‘green’ jobs
published in: Final Call on: 12/01/2009 by: Haider Rizvi
The Barack Obama administration’s drive to promote a “green” economy is not working in the interest of poor people in the United States, especially those who belong to minority communities, according to a new study by a leading think tank. “The communities of color are hardest hit (by joblessness),” said Terry Keleher, who co-authored the report, “Green Equity Toolkit: Standards and strategies for advancing race, gender and economic equality in the green economy.”
Scientist steps down during e-mail probe
published in: Washington Post on: 12/02/2009 by: Juliet Eilperin
A scientist who is one of the central figures in the uproar over pirated e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit announced Tuesday that he is stepping down as the unit’s director while the university investigates the incident. Climate skeptics have seized on several e-mails from Phil Jones to other researchers as evidence that prominent scientists have sought to silence their voices in the debate over global warming.
Senator won’t support legislation on ‘fracking’
published in: Jackson Hole News & Guide on: 11/30/2009 by: Cory Hatch
U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, a medical doctor, said he won’t support legislation that would allow a physician or nurse access to chemical formulas used in hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing is a method energy companies use to get gas from geological structures by pumping fluids at high pressure into the ground and fracturing the subsurface rock.
Media Watch
Editorial: Global Warming Revolt
published in: Wall Street Journal (Subscription Required) on: 12/02/2009 by: Editorial Staff
The global revolt keeps building against carbon cap and trade, not that you’d know it from the U.S. media. First the U.S. Senate postpones its bill, next countries meeting in Copenhagen this month can’t agree on emissions cuts, then emails among climate scientists reveal rigged peer-review, and now comes a political uprising in Australia that may doom a carbon tax down under.
Op-ed: A more intelligent power grid is on the horizon
published in: Helena Independent Record on: 12/01/2009 by: Ken Toole
Imagine going to the gas station to fill up your car. You fill your tank but there is nothing on the pump to tell you the price per gallon or how many gallons you put in your tank. Instead of paying right there, you drive away and the oil company sends you a bill at the end of the month. By the time you know that price has gone up, you have already bought and used the gas … and now you just have to pay for it. Not a very consumer-friendly way to do business. Unfortunately, that is exactly how electric utilities work.
Editorial: Pipeline progress
published in: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on: 11/30/2009 by: Editorial Staff
New pipelines are carrying Western Slope natural gas to various parts of the country and making locally gathered gas as valuable — or nearly so — as natural gas produced in other parts of the country. That’s critical because, for a long time, pipeline capacity has limited the amount of natural gas that can be shipped out of this region and depressed the price of Piceance Basin gas by several dollars below the national average per thousand cubic feet of gas.
Op-ed: Ken Salazar got one thing right
published in: Examiner on: 11/26/2009 by: David Leach
In another example of how liberals get their panties in a wad when they are challenged for the decisions they make, Ken Salazar resorted to name-calling and innuendo as he tried to defend the Obama Administration’s extremist energy policies. In a story published by the Denver Post, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, criticized the oil and gas industry for accusing the Obama Administration of stifling energy development in the West and offshore.
IPAMS Guest Column: DOI still making things difficult for the West
published in: E&P Magazine on: 11/24/2009 by: Marc Smith
Last week, IPAMS released an analysis highlighting the irregularities in the Department of Interior’s (DOI) natural gas and oil leasing program. The findings were significant and demonstrate a marked change at the DOI in regards to developing the vast amounts of domestic energy that lie beneath the public lands of the Intermountain West. It has become clear that DOI is making it difficult for independent western producers to continue developing the clean natural gas our nation needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, backup wind and solar energy, and increase our energy security.
Environment and Wildlife
Progress To Shutter 11 Plants Using Coal
published in: Wall Street Journal (Subscription Required) on: 12/02/2009 by: Rebecca Smith
Bowing to rising environmental pressures, Progress Energy Inc. said it will shut 11 coal-fired power plants at four sites in North Carolina by 2017 and replace the capacity with gas-burning units. The action is part of a trend in which utilities are shuttering older, smaller coal-burning units and embracing cheap natural gas as a “bridge fuel” to fill the gap until the 2020-to-2030 time frame, when nuclear power and renewable energy are expected to be larger sources of low-carbon electricity.
Businesses in U.S. Brace for New Rules on Emissions
published in: New York Times on: 11/26/2009 by: Jad Mouawad
The nation’s corporations have long been bracing for the day when they would be required to carry out sharp cuts in the emissions that cause global warming. That day seemed to move a bit closer on Wednesday, when President Obama outlined a national target for such reductions. Much of corporate America has already been thinking about how to comply. Many businesses concluded years ago that such limits were inevitable, and they have been calling on Congress to define the exact rules they will need to follow.
Study finds coal-bed methane production could foul water in Moffat County
published in: Colorado Independent on: 11/24/2009 by: David O. Williams
A study being conducted by the Colorado Geological Survey (CGS) shows the very real potential for groundwater contamination by coal-bed methane production in the Sand Wash Basin area of Moffat County, according to the Craig Daily Press.
Technology, Alternatives & Renewables
Group announces plans new 500-megawatt wind farm
published in: Jo Dee Black on: 12/01/2009 by: Great Falls Tribune
A Minnesota-based wind energy developer and a Montana-based company announced plans for a 500 megawatt wind farm to be built near the Judith Gap wind project, which produces 135 megawatts of electricity National Wind and Billings-based Montana Wind Resource are forming Judith Highlands Energy in the central Montana counties of Judith Basin, Wheatland, Golden Valley, and Fergus.
“Smart-grid” technology powers a buzz in Boulder
published in: Denver Post on: 11/23/2009 by: Ann Schrader
A Boulder company has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to build on its “smart grid” communications technologies. Power Tagging was selected from thousands of companies so it can accelerate development of its eGRID database to support smart-grid standards being developed by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, known as NIST.
Markets
Leaders celebrate start of MATL work
published in: Great Falls Tribune on: 12/01/2009 by: Karl Puckett
About 130 industry and government leaders from Montana and Alberta celebrated here Monday the start of construction of a 214-mile trans-border transmission line, with the developer estimating the line will prompt $1 billion in wind farm development. The 300-megawatt Montana Alberta Tie Line, or MATL, will span farmland in northern Montana and southern Alberta between Great Falls and Lethbridge. It will cost $215 million to construct while creating 150 jobs and contributing $10 million to local economies in both countries, Calgary-based developer Montana Alberta Tie Line Ltd said.
Natural Gas Glut Overwhelms Speculators, Defies Rally
published in: Bloomberg on: 11/30/2009 by: Ayesha Daya
When Qatar’s biggest natural gas shipment to the U.S. arrived this month, it signaled to Barclays Capital Inc. and PFC Energy that this year’s worst performing commodity investment won’t recover in 2010. Murwab, a Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker, carried the first shipment to the U.S. from the Persian Gulf nation since June 2008. Its cargo, enough to heat about 9 million homes for a day, added to the largest gas inventories for this time of year since at least 1994, Energy Department data show.
U.S. Crude Oil Production Poised for Biggest Jump Since 1970
published in: Platts/Rigzone.com on: 11/27/2009 by: Staff
United States crude oil production for 2009 is on target to have its biggest one-year jump since 1970, according to a Platts analysis of industry data. With U.S. oil production averaging 5.268 million barrels per day (b/d) through October, the gain in U.S. output will be the most since the country produced 9.637-million b/d in 1970, which turned out to be the peak year of U.S. crude output, according to Platts’ analysis of data published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). If that 5.268 million b/d figure holds through December, this year would show a 6.4% boost from the 4.95 million b/d average of 2008 and rank as the best U.S. oil production year since 2004, when output averaged 5.419 million b/d.
Industry News and Events
EnCana splits into independent companies
published in: E&E News (Subscription Required) on: 11/30/2009 by: Michael Burnham
Canada’s EnCana Corp. split into independent oil and natural gas businesses today, completing a deal more than a year in the making. Calgary-based EnCana Corp. will operate as a pure-play natural gas company and retain all of its unconventional gas assets in Alberta, British Columbia, Texas and Louisiana. The company will have about 4,800 employees.
US Oil, Gas Rig Count Up 24 to 1,137
published in: Baker Hughes/Rigzone.com on: 11/25/2009 by: Staff
The number of rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in the U.S. climbed this week as producers ramped up drilling in response to higher prices. The number of oil and gas rigs climbed to 1,137, up 24 rigs from the previous week, according to data from oil-field services company Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI). The number of gas rigs was 748, an increase of 22 rigs from last week, while the oil rig count was 379, an increase of four rigs. The number of miscellaneous rigs fell by two to 10.
RPSEA Request for Proposal
The 2009 RFPs for the Unconventional Resources Program has been posted to the RPSEA website. Proposals may be submitted well in advance of the due date, which is December 8, 2009, 4 p.m., Central Time, to allow for electronic receipt processing.
Please click here to go to the Current Request for Proposals page on RPSEA’s website for the most current RFP information.
All inquiries pertaining to RFPs must be in writing and directed to Contracts Director Wiley Wells by e-mail at wwells@rpsea.org. The period is open 21 calendar days from date of issue for each RFP; after this date, the question/answer period is closed. All questions and answers will be posted to RPSEA’s website.
SPCC Rule
EPA has issued amendments to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule, effective January 14, 2010.
Whiting Cookbook Coming Soon…
Whiting Petroleum Corporation employees have put together a cookbook of favorite recipes to raise funds for the Food Bank of the Rockies. The cookbook – “Food For The Hungry–Recipes Worth Whiting For” – contains lots and lots of tasty recipes; funny sayings about food, cooking and diets; interesting and beautiful photos of oil and gas operations; as well as a glossary of oil and gas terms that sound like food terms – but aren’t!
Food Bank of the Rockies provides food supplies to more than 1,000 hunger relief programs in northern Colorado and Wyoming, helping nearly 400,000 people in the region who live in poverty and struggle to meet their basic food needs; almost half of whom are children. Since 1996 Whiting has raised more than $238,300, providing more than 953,200 meals (approximately seven tons of food) for our hungry neighbors in Colorado and Wyoming. You too can help the Food Bank through your purchase of Whiting’s cookbook. The cost is only $12.00 each, and 100% of the proceeds will be donated directly to the Food Bank. The cookbooks would make terrific holiday, birthday, anniversary, or other fun gifts for just about anyone! To order or for more information, contact Carla Wilson or (303) 837-4225.
