Once again activism in monitoring gas and
oil activities in Huerfano County has been recognized. OXY has been
made aware of our vigilance.
We have located the Environmental Assessment for the OXY Sheep Mountain wells 7-15-I and 8-15-D. It was signed on September 16, 2014. Our comments are addressed on page 3 and as Appendix A at the end of the Assessment.
Environmental Assessment Sheep Mountain 7-15-I, 8-15-D
The two wells have a status of XX with the
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC). XX signifies
that "APPROVED PERMIT TO DRILL WELLBORE: NOT YET REPORTED AS SPUD; INCLUDES EXPIRED PERMITS."
"Reported as Spud" would mean drilling has commenced.
Some good points were made to the BLM within a time-frame of less than one week to prepare comments. As a rule, we are learning that regulatory agencies and operators do not communicate effectively with the public. As in this situation where the receipt of comments were never directly acknowledged nor was the outcome sent to us. We had to dig it up on the BLM website in something called the NEPA Archive. NEPA ARCHIVE
Thank you for signing the Green Rockies Emerging Ecology Network (GREEN) petition. It was an ad hoc or spur-of-the-moment response to an opportunity to comment in a matter of days. Perhaps we can go GREEN again should the need arise.
