Re: “Colorado oil and gas regulators face flak from communities as they refine pipeline rules,” Jan. 8 news story.
The most amazing thing about this article is that Colorado oil and gas companies don’t already have to “cut off abandoned lines, test active lines to detect leaks, participate in an 811 system for locating lines at specific excavation sites and report more fully on fires and explosions … .” These seem to represent common-sense safety measures.
Also, in this day and age when Google can locate me in my own home, a statewide, searchable map showing the location of all oil and gas operations and pipelines is more than doable. That state officials acknowledge they don’t know the location or the extent of underground lines is unacceptable. We should expect more from both our government officials and the oil and gas industry.
William Pincus, Denver
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