{"id":3114,"date":"2012-09-05T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/oil-gas-task-force-gone-rogue\/"},"modified":"2012-09-09T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T02:02:36","slug":"oil-gas-task-force-gone-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/oil-gas-task-force-gone-rogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil &#038; Gas Task Force gone rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Attorney General made it abundantly clear to Richard Miller and Elbert County back on January 24th that water quality enforcement incident to oil and gas drilling came under the jurisdiction of Colorado state regulation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/office-of-attorney-general.pdf\" title=\"Colorado Attorney General to Richard Miller, January 24th, 2012\">Colorado Attorney General to Richard Miller, January 24th, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Section III. D<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Oil &amp; Gas Task Force headed by Richard Miller, in the latest MOU and in the draft Oil &amp; Gas Zoning regulations, have completely ignored the Colorado Attorney General.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ogr_mou_items_8_28_2012.pdf\">Memorandum of Understanding with the COGCC <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/elco-oil-and-gas-regs-august-2012-all.pdf\" title=\"Draft Elbert County Oil &amp; Gas Regulations, August 28, 2012\">Draft Elbert County Oil &amp; Gas Regulations, August 28, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, while continuing to push an agenda for local regulatory intervention, the Oil &amp; Gas Task Force has ignored the extensive Water Quality Baseline data already maintained and published by the COGCC.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/elbertcountybaselinewq-may-2012.pdf\">Baseline Water Quality Review &#8211; Elbert County, Colorado<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Why have all the candidates, Democrat and Republican alike,  ignored this brewing conflict, and ignored the extensive data already in  place to resolve the matter?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why have the sitting commissioners allowed this brewing conflict to continue? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why have <u>all<\/u> of the liberal pundits at the Prairie Times, the Elbert County Sun, the Ranchland News, the Elbert County News, the New Plains, the Ecogig, and the Elbert Grab, ignored all of it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">__________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cricket1.jpg\" title=\"Crickets\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cricket1.jpg\" alt=\"Crickets\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nchirp &#8230; chirp &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">__________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"left\">B_Imperial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Attorney General made it abundantly clear to Richard Miller and Elbert County back on January 24th that water quality enforcement incident to oil and gas drilling came under the jurisdiction of Colorado state regulation. Colorado Attorney General to Richard Miller, January 24th, 2012 See Section III. D The Oil &amp; Gas Task Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,17,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-subversion","7":"category-water","8":"category-zoning","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}