STEAMBOAT SPRINGS- —Uneasy about the fact the Routt County Board of Commissioners is in the midst of revising the conditions of approval for oil and gas drilling permits, the Routt County Planning Commission voted unanimously Thursday night to table Quicksilver Resource’s request for a permit to drill on the Camilletti and Sons ranch a mile north of Milner and U.S. Highway 40 west of Steamboat.
“The quality of life in this county is very much based on the public’s faith in the public process,” Planning Commission member John Ayer said. “I want to make sure that if we approve this, we have adequate mitigations that will pose the highest confidence level (that drilling) impacts will be compensated for. Right now, I don’t have faith and confidence the mitigations we have in front of us can instill that confidence.”
With the Board of Commissioners expected to complete its review of a slate of possible changes to the county’s conditions, which can be applied to drilling permits by Feb. 21, Ayer said he preferred to wait, and his colleagues agreed.
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