STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – — Thom Kerr, the interim director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, told a group of about 80 people at the Routt County Courthouse on Tuesday night that baseline testing of groundwater quality is in the best interest of energy exploration companies.
“There’s no greater tool that any operator can have than baseline testing” to establish pre-existing groundwater quality before it begins exploratory drilling operations, Kerr said. “It’s not in our rules, but we push it every way we can.”
Kerr was in Steamboat Springs to meet with the Routt County Board of Commissioners in a public hearing during which local officials asked him to respond to 41 questions that pertained to an expanded set of conditions commissioners are contemplating adding to the review of new applications for oil and gas drilling permits.
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