Colorado Law Could Force Boulder to Sell Oil and Gas to a Private Company

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State regulators could order Boulder County to sell its gas rights without the consent of voters or property owners.

. The COGCC has scheduled a hearing for Jan. 25, 2023. However, the county is hoping to end the process early.

When Extraction proposed the drilling project in 2018, the company hoped to drill up to 32 horizontal wells on a 13-acre well pad just 1,000 feet outside of Boulder in neighboring Weld County. Boulder County objected, arguing that while the well pads would be built in Weld County, the oil and gas would be removed from Boulder. Nonetheless, the COGCC approved the permits.

As the oil and gas industry’s technologies have improved over time, companies have been able to expand the acreage of their proposed drilling sites, increasing the potential for there to be multiple owners of the land and minerals, said Matt Sura, an attorney who represents land and mineral owners in lawsuits against oil and gas companies.

 

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