Broomfield Concerned has been reporting on increasing levels of VOC’s that are being picked up by the air monitoring systems in the vicinity of the Livingston Site. The air quality stations have been monitoring two types of VOC plumes that are occurring, both of which are emitting levels of benzene. Recently, the plumes identified as BA plumes have been…
The city and county of Broomfield announced today that “On October 7, 2020, Extraction Oil and Gas, Inc. was found guilty on seven citations for violating Broomfield’s noise ordinance. After a day and a half trial, the Broomfield Municipal Court found Extraction Oil and Gas, Inc. guilty of failing to submit a noise modeling study as required by the…
Broomfield’s Air Monitoring Program continues to track VOC plumes at two monitoring locations. A recent report was released, which looked closely at events that occurred on August 3rd, August 11th, September 6th, and September 12th, September 17th. The report identified that there were two different chemical compositions found in these plumes. Based on the chemicals found, the recent wildfire…
Groups that championed SB-181 are requesting that people write to Governor Jared Polis and the COGCC in support of a 2000 foot setback for oil and gas operations without the ability to apply for variances. Please send your message today and click here to sign a petition.
The COGCC completed repair work on plugged and abandoned well, Davis 43-6 to address a sub-surface methane leak. Testing on this well continued after the repair was made to see if the methane in the soil would dissipate naturally, on its own. The COGCC recently determined that there is still methane in the soil approximately 18 ft underground which…
The most recent spike is being identified as a possible “Raw Natural Gas Leak.” On July 11th, a short VOC spike at Soaring Eagle park was detected around 7:45 PM by Boulder AIR. These findings were also confirmed and supported by similar data captured by AJAX sensors. This plume was characterized as being “very rich in methane and VOC’s”…
A report released by the City and County of Broomfield notes the following: On July 16, 2020, the City and County of Broomfield (Broomfield) receivednotification that approximately 2 barrels of produced water was released from the produced water storage tank at Crestone Peak Resources (Crestone) Alaux/Sears Facility located just east of I-25, west of County Road 11, south of…
An article from Westword announces that Extraction has withdrawn their undeveloped permits at Bella Romero. Concerns remain, however, similar to concerns raised by residents and council members here in Broomfield, about what happens to wells already drilled that XOG may or may not be able to financially maintain. The article explains that parents are calling for a complete shut…
We have received answers to the questions we posed to the City/County of Broomfield on 6/18/2020. Answers were posted on 6/22/2020. The questions below are followed by the answers in bold. Please remember that the answers come from the City/County of Broomfield (CCOB) and not from Broomfield Concerned. If you have concerns about the specificity, accuracy, or overall integrity…
We’ve seen a lot of questions and concerns appearing on Facebook and elsewhere about the impact of the Chapter 11 filing of Extraction and what that means to Broomfield residents. We compiled a list of questions in response to the concerns we’ve seen, and sent the following email (in italics below) to council and staff on 9/18/2020: Hello council…
