Tag: Save The Aurora Reservoir
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Contentious well pad in Lowry Ranch fracking plan approved after 7 hearings
After seven hearings and contentious debate between oil and gas company Crestone Peak Resources and activist group Save The Aurora Reservoir, Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission voted to approve the State Sunlight-Long well pad. A Tuesday ECMC hearing in which both organizations presented arguments to commissioners lasted five hours. ECMC members voted 4-1 to…
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Colorado regulators approve oil drilling, fracking near Aurora Reservoir — with conditions
Colorado’s regulators on Wednesday approved an application to drill for oil and natural gas, including fracking, near the Aurora Reservoir — under certain conditions. Commissioners from Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission voted, 3-1, to green-light what’s called the Lowry Ranch Comprehensive Area Plan following hours of testimony from opponents and critics, as well as from…
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Regulators give ‘affected party’ status to group opposed to oil drilling proposal near Aurora Reservoir
Save the Aurora Reservoir (STAR), a nonprofit created to oppose oil and gas operations from company Civitas in areas near the reservoir, was given “affected party” status at the first of two days of public hearings in front of the state’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission. After extensive public comment and backlash against the Lowry…
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Fight over fracking near Aurora Reservoir erupts
Shortly after moving into her new home near the Aurora Reservoir, Marsha Goldsmith Kamin took a walk with her husband around the neighborhood and saw a sign that said, “Save the Aurora Reservoir.” “I looked at my husband and I looked out at the reservoir and I said, ‘What’s the matter with it? What are…
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Fears of contamination to Aurora Reservoir voiced by area residents
A plan to drill oil and gas wells on state-owned land east of the Aurora Reservoir in Arapahoe County raised the ire of residents to the west. Angry subdivision residents southwest of the reservoir are trying to stop Civitas Resources from drilling up to 191 horizontal well bores from 16 drilling pads on more than…