GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.—A western Colorado school district has agreed to opening the land under a high school to possible natural gas drilling.
The Glenwood Springs Post Independent reports that the Garfield Re-2 school board voted this week to lease its half of the mineral rights beneath Coal Ridge High School. District officials say they don’t know who owns the rest of the minerals under the school between New Castle and Silt.
District officials have been discussing possibly leasing the minerals to Antero Resources. If it drills gas, Antero has agreed not to place drilling rigs on school property or build roads and pipelines on the land.
Companies can drill horizontally or at angles to reach gas without disturbing the surface directly over the targeted area.
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Information from: Post Independent,
