CARBONDALE – — Despite assurances from EnCana Oil and Gas (USA) representatives, some town trustees here remain skeptical about the prospect of drilling activity to develop natural gas wells in the nearby Thompson Divide area.
“With all due respect, when [a well] fails, the potential risks are what people are afraid of,” Mayor Stacey Bernot said during a board of trustees work session on Tuesday.
Mark Balderston, a supervisor of hydraulic fracturing, and Sher Long, a corporate relations officer for EnCana, made a 90-minute presentation on drilling to the trustees during the work session. In late 2011, Encana took several trustees on a tour of gas wells in western Garfield County.
The Carbondale trustees have gone on record opposing drilling in the Thompson Divide area, in the mountains to the west and north of town, due to concerns about potential air pollution, water contamination and other impacts from drilling and industry activities.
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