The Colorado Senate has proposed SB088 wherein they propose to preempt all local County control to regulate the oil and gas industry. This means that the COGCC alone will be in charge of all oil and gas operations. Without local control, their are no protections for the citizens that are affected by oil and gas.
This means that control over the setback distances, drilling spacing units, storage/disposal of carcinogenic waste water, the depletion of underground water supplies, the contamination of underground water supplies, the flaring of carcinogenic gas from wells, the traffic as well as the general impact on human and animal health, property values and quality of life will reside only in the hands of the State bureaucrats. The COGCC does not have a mission to protect landowners and residents.
Urge your state legislators to reject SB088 and replace it with a bill that grants local authority the power to regulate over the COGCC.
Please reject this bill and replace it with a proactive bill that gives alll surface property control to the Counties.
SIGN PETITION HERE PLEASE (only takes 15 seconds)
Please help by sending this to all of your friends.
Basically the oil and gas industry wishes to force communistic rule on all cities and frack everyone's lives but their own.
Showing posts with label House Bill 88. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House Bill 88. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Lobbyist: Bill threatens local controls on oil & gas - Please sign petition against it - HERE
John Colson
Post Independent Staff
Glenwood Springs, Colorado CO
Feb 5, 2012
But Commissioner Martin says it would maintain the ‘status quo' with industry
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — A bill before the Colorado Legislature is aimed at eliminating any local control over oil and gas activities, according to the Colorado Municipal League, which is opposing the bill.
Introduced by state Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, Senate Bill 88 is before the Senate Local Government Committee, chaired by Sen. Joyce Foster, D-Denver. Its title is “Preempt Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations.”
According to a bulletin in the Colorado Municipal League's Jan. 23 Statehouse Report, the bill is “aimed at radically limiting or completely extinguishing local government authority over one class of industrial land use: oil and gas operations.”
Garfield County Commissioner John Martin, however, believes the bill is little more than a restatement of existing law.
“As I read it, local regulations are the ones that would be ‘operational conflicts,'” Martin said. He was referring to existing state law that gives the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) complete jurisdiction over, as Martin termed it, “everything on the pad and underground.”
Local governments, Martin continued, have jurisdiction only over the land-use aspects of the industry, including traffic concerns, air and water quality issues, and the creation of man camps to house employees who work on the drilling rigs and other remote facilities.
“I see it as pretty much the status quo,” Martin said.
But the municipal league and Colorado Counties Inc. (CCI), a lobbying organization for county governments, believe the bill would have serious, negative repercussions if passed.
“It would be devastating,”
said Andy Karsian, legislative supervisor for CCI. “We would undo years of productive relationship-building with the oil and gas industry.”
Continue reading... OR
SIGN PETITION PLEASE HERE
Post Independent Staff
Glenwood Springs, Colorado CO
Feb 5, 2012
But Commissioner Martin says it would maintain the ‘status quo' with industry
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — A bill before the Colorado Legislature is aimed at eliminating any local control over oil and gas activities, according to the Colorado Municipal League, which is opposing the bill.
Introduced by state Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, Senate Bill 88 is before the Senate Local Government Committee, chaired by Sen. Joyce Foster, D-Denver. Its title is “Preempt Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations.”
According to a bulletin in the Colorado Municipal League's Jan. 23 Statehouse Report, the bill is “aimed at radically limiting or completely extinguishing local government authority over one class of industrial land use: oil and gas operations.”
Garfield County Commissioner John Martin, however, believes the bill is little more than a restatement of existing law.
“As I read it, local regulations are the ones that would be ‘operational conflicts,'” Martin said. He was referring to existing state law that gives the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) complete jurisdiction over, as Martin termed it, “everything on the pad and underground.”
Local governments, Martin continued, have jurisdiction only over the land-use aspects of the industry, including traffic concerns, air and water quality issues, and the creation of man camps to house employees who work on the drilling rigs and other remote facilities.
“I see it as pretty much the status quo,” Martin said.
But the municipal league and Colorado Counties Inc. (CCI), a lobbying organization for county governments, believe the bill would have serious, negative repercussions if passed.
“It would be devastating,”
said Andy Karsian, legislative supervisor for CCI. “We would undo years of productive relationship-building with the oil and gas industry.”
Continue reading... OR
SIGN PETITION PLEASE HERE
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