State clearing way for energy park

Craig Harrison’s Niobrara Energy Park has cleared some major hurdles in the past year, with state government agencies approving his requests for a natural-gas distribution system and usage of 135 million gallons of water annually.

“Now the project is not only totally energy secure, it can be totally water secure,´ said Harrison, president of Harrison Resource Corp.

Harrison has worked for nearly three years to launch his energy park, where he aims to integrate natural gas and renewable-energy generation facilities with a cloud-computing data center. Harrison, a developer in Loveland, has collaborated with IDC Architects, an affiliate of CH2M Hill, on the…