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Ultra has submitted drilling permits with county
December 1st, 2011, 10:43 am · 17 Comments · posted by Debbie Kelley
While Colorado Springs City Council on Wednesday enacted a six-month moratorium on oil and gas exploration within city limits, Ultra Resources has submitted temporary use permit applications with El Paso County.
Ultra is seeking county approval for three well sites in eastern El Paso County. The company also is getting state approval for the drilling.
The applications are being worked through the county’s permitting system, said Craig Dossey, a county project manager and planner.
Dossey said he does not have a timeline for finalizing the permits. Local temporary use permits usually take 60 to 90 days to process.
It has been estimated that Ultra could receive clearance to begin drilling late this month or early in January.
El Paso County commissioners enacted a four-month temporary suspension on the application process on Sept. 29, to give county officials time to draft land use regulations for the industry, but three weeks later made an exception for Ultra Resources, a Texas-based energy developer with an office in Englewood.
Ultra representatives told commissioners they thought they were in the application process at the time commissioners imposed the moratorium because Ultra had spoken to county staff prior to that.
Ultra wants to test drill for oil and gas on three well sites on Colorado State Land Board property in El Paso County. Ultra paid $1.67 million in July and August to Denver-based Pine Ridge Oil & Gas LLC for mineral leases on nearly 100,000 acres of land in eastern El Paso County and an exploratory well east of Fountain.
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DRILL BABY DRILL!!!
This has to be stopped! There is too much risk in Hydraulic Fracturing! The county should require that oil and gas drilling occurring in compliance with the 2001 Clean air and Water act. In Colorado, water is already a scarce resource!
Please become informed on what Fracking is and what it could do to our health as well as our property values. Please google fracking, or watch “Gasland” or any of the various you tube videos on the subject.
Tap water catches on fire, dangerous levels of toxic gasses seeping into our schools and homes, hair loss, brain tumors, infertility form drinking the tap water.
Here is some information on Hydraulic Fracturing:
*Between 1 million and 5 million gallons of water are needed to frack a well. More is needed if a well has been fracked before
* Scientists have found that 25 percent of chemicals used in fracking can cause cancer; 37 percent can disrupt the endocrine system; and 40 to 50 percent can affect the nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems.
* There is an average of 7 spills every 5 days in Colorado associated with the oil and gas industry in Colorado–more than one each day. (Have you noticed in the news the schools being evacuated due to “mysterious odor’s making people sick?)
* To date, over 100 municipalities across the country have passed resolutions to stop fracking within their jurisdiction. Colorado should follow suit.
I can not believe that an exception was granted to the moratorium on drilling applications. What harm can further study do?
Water is not scarce in Colorado. It snows. It melts. And we sell it to other states. The fact that your utility company is creating an artificial scarcity to instill fear in your psyche is another subject.
Everyone should educate themselves about fracking. You won’t do it with the documentary ‘Gasland’. When ‘Gasland’ was released the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission found so many factual errors they conducted a study and published a report. See the link below. The bottom line is that ‘Gasland’ is a fraudulent documentary.
The producer of ‘Gasland’ was publicly confronted with proof the flaming faucets assertions were fraudulent. He admitted as much but said he had no intention of removing that from the film. He said it served his purposes. In otherwords it misinformed people.
http://cogcc.state.co.us/library/GASLAND%20DOC.pdf
I agree with Lisa.
Even if part of gasland is true, I don’t want it here. Ski sounds like he works for the gas company.
Look in the report section about contamination from ” previous” drilling genius. Your own report shows that drilling directly contributed to people’s water supply being hazardous…regardless of whether it happened years ago or now… It WAS contaminated. The point here is Colorado springs residents don’t want poison in their drinking water regardless of who is drilling or when. Sheesh talk about missing the point…
We have lots of snow that melts….therefore we have lots of water? You are an idiot sir… And so is the horse you rode in on. Just to put it into pictures for your elementary mind I included a drought map from this year.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting
Thanks, Debbie, for paying attention to the county end-runs while city council debates this issue,
How is oil drilling in El Paso Cty affecting water from Pueblo Reservoir?
We were given the responsility to be stewards of our land. Those of us who live in the area where these wells are being drilled depend on the water on our property. We can’t get city water. We use this to drink and feed out animals. If oil drilling affected the water we have to truck it in…try this sometime. Think about the chemicals in the water when you eat your steak or eat your vegetables. Contaminated water get into everything.
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Debbie, we will miss your presence at PPACG and PPRTA meetings diligently taking notes for publication in the Gazette. We will look forward to your next assigner’s assignments in the region.
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