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| By Jen Caltrider - Jun 16th, 2008 at 11:18 am EDT |
Do you know what frac water is?
If you live on the Front Range, I'll bet most of you said no. If you live on the western slope, I'll bet most of you said yes.
And that's the problem. There's an oil & gas drilling boom happening on Colorado's western slope and it's having a huge effect on the lives of folks over there. Here on the front range, eh, not so much.
It's time to help out our neighbors across the mountains.
You can help, no matter where in Colorado you live.
The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission makes the rules that determine how oil & gas is drilled in Colorado. We need to tell the commission that drilling is ok, just as long as it is done responsibly. Protect our beautiful state, our wildlife, our air quality and the health of our citizens while you're drilling for Colorado's natural resources.
Go to ColoradosDirtyTruth.org to sign the petition telling the commission to implement common sense protections for Colorado.
Oh, and leave it like you found it. The Oil & Gas industry can afford to do it right.
If you live on the Front Range, I'll bet most of you said no. If you live on the western slope, I'll bet most of you said yes.
And that's the problem. There's an oil & gas drilling boom happening on Colorado's western slope and it's having a huge effect on the lives of folks over there. Here on the front range, eh, not so much.
It's time to help out our neighbors across the mountains.
You can help, no matter where in Colorado you live.
The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission makes the rules that determine how oil & gas is drilled in Colorado. We need to tell the commission that drilling is ok, just as long as it is done responsibly. Protect our beautiful state, our wildlife, our air quality and the health of our citizens while you're drilling for Colorado's natural resources.
Go to ColoradosDirtyTruth.org to sign the petition telling the commission to implement common sense protections for Colorado.
Oh, and leave it like you found it. The Oil & Gas industry can afford to do it right.
Here are some Myths & Realities for drilling in Colorado:
Myth: Gas prices are high so we need more drilling to bring them down.
Reality: You have to look at this historically. We have more permits today and more wells in production in Colorado than ever before, yet we're paying record prices. Drilling more is not the answer.
Myth: We have to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Reality: The companies that are doing the drilling will get the best dollar possible for the oil being produced in Colorado. They have no interest in selling to us when they can ship the oil to China and sell it for $140 a barrel. Local production does not mean local consumption. As an example, people in Florida pay the same price for oranges that we do even though our oranges are shipped across the country. Floridians pay the same price that the orange companies can get for oranges anywhere else in the world.
Myth: Oil companies are not making record profits or their return on investment is not as big as they say.
Reality: According to their own presentations to stockholders and investors and their own financial statements, the oil and gas companies that drill in Colorado are making record profits. And their ROIs are enviable in any industry. The cost to take oil and natural gas out of the ground has not changed in ten years ($1.81 mcfl for natural gas and $10 a barrel for oil). Yet the prices are skyrocketing. Ten years ago, when it cost $10 to get a barrel out of the ground and the price was $20 a barrel--oil companies made $10 a barrel. Now that the price is $140 a barrel, the same company is making 13 times the profit.
Myth: The additional drilling is good for Colorado because it brings jobs.
Reality: Drilling does create jobs but those jobs are not being done by Coloradans who have been part and are staying in our communities. We are enticing people from elsewhere to come here earn money and spend it in other places. The additional drilling (and the additional workers) create an economic detriment to the local communities because the communities do not have the money to accommodate the extra people who are using local services like schools, roads, health care, etc. Ask any local mayor if the boom has been good for their town and every mayor will say no.
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You really need to get your head out of your ass and your facts straight. Of course, ignorance is bliss.
P.S. - a really good protest would be for you NOT to heat your home with natural gas (which produces far less VOCs than wood). Of course electricity is clean, right? 82% of that is produced by coal in the USA.
"Colorado’s Piceance Basin is a lively place, according to Steve Cumella, another AAPG member and senior geologist at veteran Rockies player Bill Barrett Corp., which operates in the Piceance and other areas...
“Exxon, EnCana and Williams have by far the biggest acreage positions,” Cumella said. “Williams alone has something like 27 rigs drilling.
“There are a lot of other companies operating,” he added, “and very conservatively I’d say there’s 50 to 60 rigs running – maybe closer to a hundred...
The average reserves per well are 1.5 bcf, and well costs range between $1.5 million and $2.5 million...
“The economics are better now because gas prices are better,” Cumella said. “If you can drill a 1.5 bcf well for one-and-a-half million dollars, that’s highly economic today. In a lot of the basin there’s zero percent dry hole risk, so you drill a well and there’s usually 100 percent chance of success.
“Bill Barrett has drilled close to 300 wells there with no dry holes, and Williams would have drilled close to 3,000 with no dry holes."
This is one of the misconceptions fueled by the industry. They would like for people to think lots of oil drilling is being done in Colorado to bolster their talking point that drilling will lower the gas prices for people at the pump. Because most of Colorado's drilling is for natural gas, this is simply one more myth we need to combat as we educate the public.
Thank you for helping clarify that point.
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