All Posts Tagged With: "water quality"

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Weld County to Offer Free Well Water Testing
for Oil And Gas Activity

While the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission does similar testing for well water contamination, Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway said the availability of the instrument gives residents “another layer of security” as the industry continues to expand in Weld.

2Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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COGCC Official Talks Baseline Testing on West Slope

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission does not require companies to perform groundwater testing as part of its rules. However, the COGCC has been known to make energy companies perform baseline testing of groundwater reserves under certain circumstances.

26Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cleanup Orders at Suncor Refinery Spill
Officially Issued

EPA lab test results released Thursday evening indicate benzene concentrations ranging from 2,000 parts per billion, where the liquid enters Sand Creek, to 480 ppb, where the creek enters the South Platte River — well above the 5 ppb national drinking-water standard

2Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil Pollutants Seeping Into Metro Denver
Water Supply

Western Resource Advocates, a nonprofit environmental law and policy organization, argues the Suncor leak into the South Platte River is just the most recent example of why strong regulations and oversight procedures are needed before widespread oil drilling begins near heavily-populated areas along the Front Range.

30Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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News Round-Up From Around the State

>> FERC to Review Man’s Plan for Water Pipeline
>> Abound Solar to Triple Production by End of 2012
>> Federal Judge Says No to Uranium Mining on West Slope
>> Being Proactive Key on Oil And Gas Issues in Windsor
>> Ceremony Honors Original Wattenberg Field Discovery
>> Vet Green Jobs Gets $100k from Denver HR

21Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Broomfield Company Sponsors Program to Launch National Center to Educate Entrepreneurial Engineers

MWH Global is sponsoring a new national entrepreneurship center through Stanford’s School of Engineering. The center, which launches next month, is intended to address the critical need for innovative and entrepreneurial engineers in the U.S.

9Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oil and Gas Wells Under New Colorado
Water Policies

Before last year, the state did not administer water produced by coal-bed methane wells. The water in question is groundwater commonly found along the seams of coal from which methane gas is extracted. In the Arkansas River basin, for example, there are hundreds of wells located in Las Animas and Huerfano counties.

5Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The U.S. Better Face Up to Its Water Shortage Crisis

Another problem comes in something that sounds relatively benign: renewable energy, at least in some forms. Refining one gallon of ethanol requires four gallons of water — a drop in the bucket compared with how much water it takes to grow enough corn to refine one gallon of ethanol: as much as 2,500 gallons.

24Aug2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Piceance Basin Gets Water Quality Database

The USGA-administered repository site “is a boon for anyone with an interest in understanding water quality in this (booming energy) region—landowners, energy companies, regulators, and public officials,” said the president of the West Divide Water Conservancy District, Sam Potter.

5Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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