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Weld County adopts amended oil and gas ordinance, restores pipeline emergency-action requirement
Summary
On Sept. 8, 2025, the Weld County Board of Commissioners approved on second reading Ordinance 2025-12, repealing and reenacting portions of Chapter 21 to revise the Weld oil and gas location assessment process, remove pipeline location-assessment permitting, add pipeline emergency-action requirements and streamline stormwater rules.
Weld County commissioners on Sept. 8 approved on second reading Code Ordinance 2025-12, which repeals and reenacts portions of Chapter 21 of the Weld County Code to update the county’s oil-and-gas permitting and oversight processes. The board voted to amend the ordinance by deleting a section of “pending ordinance” language and then approved the ordinance as amended.
The ordinance replaces the county’s Weld Oil and Gas Location Assessment (WOGLA) review pathway, removes the current location-assessment requirement for pipelines, and adds back an emergency-action-plan requirement that will apply to pipelines. Brett (staff member) told the board the changes came after “extensive collaboration with industry, community leaders, and Weld County staff,” and said the revisions are intended to create “greater clarity,…
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