Adams County commissioners on Tuesday ended a short-lived moratorium on accepting new oil and gas permits that they had enacted shortly before the Nov. 6 midterm election.
By a 3-1 vote, the commissioners lifted the temporary ban that had been imposed on Oct. 30.
The moratorium had been passed before the outcome was known about Proposition 112, a ballot measure that would have dramatically increased the setbacks for oil and gas wells from buildings and waterways. The county was concerned that had the measure passed, there could have been an influx of new permits from companies trying to get approval before the setbacks became law.
Prop 112 went down to defeat Nov. 6.
At the time the moratorium was passed last month, pending permits in unincorporated Adams County numbered 248. Of those, the county was processing six applications for a total of 89 new wells.
