Boulder County, which already is being sued over the legality of its soon-to-expire moratorium on oil and gas development, may also face legal challenges over new drilling and production regulations the Board of County Commissioners adopted last month.
Colorado Oil and Gas Association President Dan Haley said on Monday that his industry organization’s lawyers are reviewing the new county rules, which he said amount to “unrealistic regulatory standards designed to roadblock responsible energy production.”
Meanwhile, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and Boulder County are continuing to exchange written legal arguments in the AG’s lawsuit over the county’s soon-to-expire moratorium on processing new applications for oil and gas development in unincorporated parts of the county.
The moratorium — the latest in a series of time-outs on drilling and production that originally began in February 2012 — is scheduled to expire on May 1.
After that, Boulder County is to once again start accepting and processing new applications for new oil and gas drilling and production in unincorporated parts of the county, applying updated regulations the county commissioners adopted on March 23.
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