Energy pumps $215 million into local region

This region’s energy industry quietly goes about its business, but it has a major impact, to the tune of $215 million annually.

That includes the energy-related natural-resource extraction and transportation industries: natural-gas and crude petroleum extraction, natural-gas liquids and pipeline transportation.

A small amount of coal mining exists in Weld County, but that industry has mostly disappeared locally.

Larimer County now contains a diamond mine, but the sector is new enough that the models we use do not yet contain sector purchases, sales, employment or income data.

Oil and gas extraction and distribution constitute significant sectors in Northern Colorado, especially in Weld County.…