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Commerce City receives monthly oil and gas update; staff flags plugged wells, exceedances and EPA review of Suncor permit
Summary
Commerce City’s environmental staff delivered the city’s January oil-and-gas update at the Jan. 13 City Council legislative committee meeting, reporting there were no active new oil-and-gas applications in the city but noting recent rigging operations tied to plugging-and-abandoning a well at the TR Ranch site and five reported air-quality exceedances for the mid-October to mid-November period.
Commerce City’s environmental staff delivered the city’s January oil-and-gas update at the Jan. 13 City Council legislative committee meeting, reporting there were no active new oil-and-gas applications in the city but noting recent rigging operations tied to plugging-and-abandoning a well at the TR Ranch site and five reported air-quality exceedances for the mid-October to mid-November period.
Libby Church, the city’s environmental planner, said the city received notices of preparatory rigging work on Dec. 20 and a three-day workover rig beginning Jan. 8 at a well located inside the TR Ranch planned-unit development site near E‑470. Church described the notices as the operator’s required communications for plugging or abandonment activity and told council members that, "plugging and abandonment is a good thing, especially with the new rules."
The nut graf: City staff used the monthly update to summarize operator activity, local inspections data and…
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