To try and tie Colorado’s actions alone to rises in temperature is to be ignorant of the hugely complex mechanisms that govern climate on this planet.
The situation in Texas is both a warning and a call to action for other states to assess their energy sources and to be clear-eyed about the weaknesses of wind and solar.
While the surface of the land in question is part of Boulder’s Open Space program, the Wells have owned the mineral rights below since 1981.
The explosion at 6312 Twilight Avenue killed Mark Martinez and plumber Joey Irwin and caused serious burns to Irwin’s sister and Martinez’s wife Erin and destroyed the house.
The expired MOU allowed the state to tell federal lands operators to get a second permit from the state. The criteria were much the same for both, so it was an expensive duplicative effort.
The commission’s suppressive tactics played into the hands of anti-oil and gas groups, who had nowhere else to be and happily filled the speaking slots of energy workers, industry experts and community leaders who couldn’t stay indefinitely.
“The COGCC is on a collision course with the federal government.”–State Sen. Ray Scott
“Voters overwhelmingly rejected a de facto ban on oil and gas last fall, and when given the chance in 2019, we believe they’ll reject the backdoor ban barreling through the legislature too.” — Barbara Kirkmeyer and John Brackney on their ballot initiatives.
“They refused to work with us,” Sen. John Cooke said. “They see us as irrelevant. They won’t talk about changes. They won’t listen to the industry. The only way to slow it down was this.” — On stalling the debate on Senate Bill 181.
Roughly 90 percent of land across Colorado would be walled off, with an even greater impact in the handful of counties where most of the state’s oil and gas production takes place.
