WEEK OF OCTOBER 19, 2023
VOLUME 135 | ISSUE 11
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Arapahoe County approves amendments for oil and gas regulations
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BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Arapahoe County approves amendments for oil and gas regulations At a special business meeting, community members spoke for almost three hours to the Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners, voicing strong and divided opinions on proposed amendments to oil and gas facility regulations. The county’s conversations about oil and gas facility regulations were triggered by a proposed oil and natural gas project called Lowry Ranch. The proposed project, put forward by an oil and gas company called Civitas Resources, would be at a 33,440-acre site east of Aurora, including areas near the Aurora Reservoir. The new regulations would apply to all future projects in the county. “The regulations are for the entire county,” county spokesperson Anders Nelson said. “The discussions around the (proposed Civitas project are) kind of what initiated the talk though, because it was the first time we were really looking at something close to a reservoir or a piece of water.” At the end of the Oct. 10 meeting,
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the commissioners voted unanimously to approve the amendments to the regulations in the county’s land development code. “The passed amendments seek to provide additional health and safety requirements and bring other rules into compliance with neighboring jurisdictions,” a press release from
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the county said. The new regulations include:
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