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Oil & gas industry being a good neighbor: getting a license to operate through proactive community engagement
Lindsey, Wyatt Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy Crompton, James
Lindsey, Wyatt
Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
Crompton, James
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2022-10-27
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In the DJ Basin in Colorado, there has been a collision of industry activities and community development due to the "mini-boom" of O&G development, stemming from hydraulic fracking of the Niobrara Formation and the growing population along the Front Range. This led to a decrease in public support for industry permits starting around 2013 and an increase in operational notification requirements (Turkewitz 2018 & MacKenzie 2016). By 2013, the Front Range communities were pushing for more local control and enacting local bans of operations on O&G development to address distributive injustice and differing vulnerabilities (Turkewitz 2018 & McKenzie). 2019 saw the passage of SB-181 which made a big difference in the permitting process for O&G to emphasize public health, safety, and welfare. Over the next two-year period, the state experienced a significant restructuring of its O&G regulations and regulatory bodies (Jaffe 2022).
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