While visions of sugar plums may be dancing through the dreams of some lucky people, residents of Anthem Highlands, Anthem Ranch, Wildgrass, and many in unincorporated Adams County near the Northwest pad have been wide awake for several nights from the noise of unconventional oil and gas extraction in our neighborhoods. In my own home 1 mile away from…
Anthem Highlands Resident Laurie Anderson wrote a letter to Council following the March 19 Council Meeting about their failure to officially support SB 19-181. With a 6-4 vote, Council failed to reach the two-thirds vote needed to support SB 19-181 Protect Public Welfare Oil and Gas Operations. The vote was: Yes- Council Members Castriotta, Erickson, Jezerski, Kreeger, Shaff, Tessier…
Wildgrass HOA sent this email to the City on February 8 in response to a statement made at the January 22 City Council meeting by a City official. Wildgrass HOA President Bill Young presented the email during Public Comments at the February 12 Council Meeting. “Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:10 pm” “Mayor, Council, and Staff –‘‘ “At the…
A move made last spring by the CCOB to designate the Broomfield County Commons as a Designated Outside Activity Area, or DOAA, affects residents of the RedLeaf neighborhood and others, especially those bordering the open space. Per the requirements by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), a notice was sent to all mineral and property owners in…
Lizzie Lario and Jean Lim of the Wildgrass Oil and Gas Committee (WOGc) shared the letter that they sent to COGCC Director Jeff Robbins regarding Staff comments about citizen protests made at the January 28 COGCC hearing. You can read further about WOGc challenges to the Extraction project in Broomfield and their lawsuit against the constitutionality of forced pooling…
Citizen Blog by Cristen Logan As a concerned resident of Broomfield, I wanted to take the time to share an opinion on what is happening with the lawsuit two organizations put forward against the City and County of Broomfield. I think that it is important that the community learns more about what is happening in this case because this…
An independent research report highlighting some untruths perpetuated by the oil and gas industry, who is fighting against the passage of proposition 112, was brought to light today by 9 News. The report is titled “Proposition 112 Playbook: Indecent Proposal.” Over the past week, an independent analyst firm, the RS group, or RSEG as they refer to themselves on…
On October 14, I wrote about the outrageous amount of money donated by the Oil & Gas Industry (O&G) to defeat Proposition 112. This $33 million as reported in mid-October has been heavily spent on TV and radio ads. The claims of these ads center on the number of jobs and the amount of tax dollars that would be lost…
“The oil and gas industry has continued pumping millions of dollars into defeating a Colorado ballot measure that would establish 2,500-foot setbacks around new wells and other infrastructure,” according to an article in the October 10, 2018 edition of the Denver Business Journal (“See who’s spending the most on Colorado’s oil-well setback ballot fight”). Indeed, this industry…
This Citizen Blog by Wildgrass mineral owner Jean Lim contains her testimony at the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) on October 3 as the COGCC held a hearing at the end of a forced pooling rulemaking process. It includes some details of Extraction’s failure to follow SB 18-230 despite its implementation into law on June 1. Jean…
