The Boulder County Attorney’s Office took aim Friday at the unparalleled density of Crestone Peak Resources’ east county drilling plans and accused the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of catering to “industry needs” in its handling of the regulatory process.
Those are among the arguments laid out in a Protest and Intervention to Crestone’s final Comprehensive Drilling Plan submitted Friday, the pillars of a case county officials are expected to lay out at a series of October meetings on the Denver driller’s large-scale extraction plans.
The filing ensures “that the county will be a full party to the CDP hearing scheduled for Oct. 29-30,” allowing them to present evidence and provide legal arguments, attorneys said Friday.
In Friday’s submittal, the county addresses issues spanning “legal challenges to the process and the information Crestone provided in its final CDP, to site-specific concerns including impacts to residents, agricultural lands, ecological resources and flood risks in the CDP area,” officials wrote in an email blast.
The arguments draw first on the “unknown” impacts drilling of such scale and density may have on the region — the company wants to develop two plats south of Colo. 52 on either side of North 115th Street and a third plat north of Colo. 52 near Panama Reservoir No. 1.
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