Tag: Oil And Gas
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Plan to drill, frack under Aurora Reservoir postponed
Following five days of public comment and deliberation, the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission voted to postpone indefinitely the next well pad application in the Lowry Ranch oil and gas plan. The vote to “stay” — or indefinitely postpone until a condition is met — passed 4-1 this week, suspending the application until Civitas’…
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Audit finds major gaps in Colorado’s oil and gas reporting, enforcement
The agencies responsible for regulating Colorado’s oil and gas industry are underperforming when it comes to reporting and enforcement and they also failed to collect payments amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue, according to a state audit. The Office of the State Auditor reviewed 2023 data on oil and gas production…
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BLM leases nearly 8,000 acres in quarterly oil and gas sale
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recent quarterly oil and gas lease sale totaled around $7 million in receipts and covered nearly 8,000 acres of land. BLM leased 14 Colorado parcels — making up 7,895 acres — to energy companies, granting them the exclusive right to explore and produce oil and gas for 10 years.…
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Next well pad in Lowry Ranch fracking plan approved by Arapahoe County
Arapahoe County approved the next well pad in the Lowry Ranch Comprehensive Area Plan, a contentious oil and gas plan that is moving forward as individual well site applications are approved. Oil and gas company Civitas is making way on the Lowry Ranch Comprehensive Area Plan, which will guide drilling in Arapahoe County — including…
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Chevron releases final report on well blowout in Weld County
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The mystery of the cause of the April 6 gas well blowout near Galeton has been solved as part of Chevron’s report on its detailed investigation of the accident that resulted in contaminated fluid spewing up to 80 feet in the air and evacuation of…
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Falsified data from Colorado oil and gas environmental consultants discovered
The Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission reported Tuesday that two environmental consulting companies submitted falsified laboratory data reports for three oil companies’ oil well remediation projects. ECMC officials said that soil, groundwater, inorganic and organic contaminant data for about 350 oil and gas locations in Weld County was manipulated between 2021 and the summer…
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Environmentalists worry about impact of Trump’s election on oil and gas policies
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The re-election of President Donald Trump has thrown the environmental community into a tizzy over how his new policies on oil and gas exploration might affect climate change. Organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund have expressed significant concern about potential rollbacks of policies aimed at reducing…
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Oil & gas industry supporters rally at Colorado state Capitol against proposal to end new drilling
Representatives of Colorado’s oil and gas industry, along with hundreds of supporters, gathered on the west steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday for a rally opposing a proposal to ban all new oil and gas drilling by 2030. Senate Bill 24-159 is scheduled to be heard on Thursday in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Dan…
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EPA demands more information on flaring at Colorado oil and gas facilities
In a ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to revise permits issued for four oil and gas facilities following a petition that challenged state regulations on equipment used in oil and gas production. Some of the processes involved in oil and gas production use some natural gas that…
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Oil and gas company sues Colorado, argues $113 million remediation price tag is illegal
An oil and gas developer shut down last February by a state commission has filed a lawsuit claiming the latter’s demand for $113 million in financial assurances for well remediation is unfair and illegal. K.P. Kaufmann Co., a family-owned business that employs more than 150 people, is suing over a ruling by Colorado’s since-renamed Energy…