Please consider writing or attending Council on Tuesday, September 24 to ask that Council deny Crestone’s request to lift the moratorium in order to process their application for the Goltl 26H-0168 pad. Please see the map below of the proposed pad east of I-25, near the intersection of County Road 4 and County Road 11. You can write Council…
There are two upcoming opportunities for citizen input for those concerned with our air quality and our oil and gas regulation revisions in line with SB19-181. Item 11c on Tuesday’s Council Meeting Agenda beginning at 6 pm is the Report on the 2019 Second Quarter Report for Broomfield’s Air Quality Monitoring Program. You can review the report and comment…
The Charter Amendment to protect open space from mineral extraction will be up for a re-vote at the August 20th Broomfield city council meeting. The vote will determine whether this charter amendment will appear on the November 5th ballot to be voted on by citizens. The item is 11.g on the agenda and comments will be taken from citizens…
Broomfield Health and Safety First (BHSF) is “a group of residents seeking to ensure that health and safety are Broomfield’s first priority on oil & gas decisions” who sponsored Charter Amendment 301. BHSF is sponsoring a petition titled “City of Broomfield: Do NOT Sell Our Water!” that you can read and sign here. In an August 1 announcement from…
At the Tuesday, May 28 Council Meeting, there will be a public hearing and Council vote for the second reading of Ordinance No. 2091, “a moratorium on processing new and pending applications for use by special reviews or operator agreements for oil and gas developments to allow Broomfield to amend its oil and gas regulations to account for new…
Broomfield City Council will hold a special meeting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14 to consider an ordinance “for a moratorium on processing new and pending applications for use by special reviews or operator agreements for oil and gas developments to allow Broomfield to amend its oil and gas regulations to account for new regulatory authority granted to…
Now that the State legislature passed SB 19-181 Protect Public Welfare Oil and Gas Operations on April 3, it is on Governor Polis’s desk awaiting his signature. If you would like to encourage him to sign this bill, you can sign on to a letter sponsored by the League of Oil and Gas Impacted Coloradans at this link http://www.coloradologic.org/letter-to-gov-polis-sign-sb181-into-law/…
Do you want to ask DNV GL why they used data from New Mexico to do a Broomfield Extraction project risk assessment? Are you puzzled by CCOB Manager Ozaki’s announcement at Tuesday’s Council Meeting that he has already approved the risk assessment? Why does the City call it a “risk assessment” instead of a HAZID (Hazard Identification)? Are you…
Broomfield oil and gas issues will be the focus of the ENTIRE day at the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) on Tuesday, March 12, including the unprecedented forced pooling protest hearing by the Wildgrass Oil and Gas Committee (WOGc). The COGCC even moved the hearings to a larger venue in anticipation of a big crowd. Can you…
Have you thought about joining others to express your concerns about the forced pooling of mineral owners for the Extraction Livingston Pad sited in Broomfield, just prior to an unprecedented hearing at the State Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC)? It will be a first because Wildgrass Oil and Gas Committee (WOGc) was granted expanded discovery to consider…
