The parents and teachers of Bella Romero Academy are less interested in the oil produced from the site than in how the wells’ proximity is affecting their kids.
Weld County leads Colorado in natural gas production. The county is also the top producer of oil in the state, which plays a major part in the equation.
The Colorado Supreme Court unanimously struck down voter-approved fracking bans in Longmont and Fort Collins yesterday, calling them “invalid &unenforceable”.
The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear the City’s appeal of the Larimer County District Court’s 2014 decision striking down the City’s five-year moratorium on oil and gas fracking that the City’s voters approved in 2013.
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has suspended some oil and natural-gas well-completion activities in Northern Colorado following the death of a contractor and injuries to two other workers at a well site in Weld County.
An oil and gas worker died Thursday morning when a pipe burst at an Anadarko Petroleum oil well site in Weld County near Mead. Two workers were injured.
The five-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing within Fort Collins city limits was passed by voters back in November; but yesterday, a judge said otherwise.
Loveland voters have rejected a measure that would have imposed a two-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by oil and gas producers within the City limits.