9 thoughts on “Driller: Numerous Roan Plateau Spills No Cause for Alarm”

1. particularly humorous, CT :

   “We’re not going to make those mistakes,” he said, citing the decades of experience company personnel have in the area.

   Just as the president of Presco, Inc. told us at a meeting in Battlement Mesa several years ago, “it is just physically impossible for us to pollute ground water”.

   Seriously. I have witnesses.

   They wound up with 9 NOAVs (violations, for the uninitiated) from the COGCC, before they sold their interests near the Rulison Blast Zone.
   

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2. Is it possible for the gas companies to be good actors in our state?  Why do they have to be so offensively arrogant?

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   1. that make them “persons”

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   2. that’s the pinnacle of the American Dream. He’s more self-actualized that you’d think.  

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      1. in a neighborhood surface owner meeting when informed that I was planning to attend. I still have the e-mail:

         “We have no interest, and will NOT attend any such gathering that includes Duke Cox as a member.  Should he show, we go,…”

         I see they still have no more interest in dealing with the truth than they ever had.

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3. Bill Barrett Corporation has no credibility when it claims it doesn’t make “those” mistakes. The Denver Post reported just two days ago that Bill Barrett Corp. was responsible for a spill into a creek in Utah.

   
   WELLINGTON, Utah (AP) — A gas driller says it has mopped up an oil leak in a creek outside a pipeline compressor station in eastern Utah.

   Bill Barrett Corp. says “minor seepage” was discovered in 9 Mile Creek near Wellington.

   The Denver-based company says crews used absorbent booms to contain the leak as they prepared to excavate an underground line that is the source of the leak. [emphasis added]

   Nothing to see here. Just move along, folks.

   Bill Barrett says the leak was discovered Tuesday and was contained by Thursday with no evidence of water pollution outside of the immediate location of the leak. [emphasis added]

   So, when Bill Barrett claims “We’re not going to make those mistakes,” when there is ample evidence that they do make those exact mistakes, what does this say for their credibility?

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   1. watch for their lips moving.  

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4. Just like the Pope.
   
   Well, wait a minute……

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5. Who cares about people or the environment when money is to be made. Also from the Sentinel:

   …Energy developer Bill Barrett Corp. has notified the state that gas possibly related to drilling has shown up in the Miller domestic well up Divide Creek (south of Silt).

   “In both cases we’ve not been able to identify the specific source of the impact, and that remains under investigation,” said David Neslin, director of the oil and gas commission.

   Lisa Bracken, who lives in the area of the gas seep, said gas development problems around the seep area have continued despite stricter drilling rules designed to better protect groundwater there.

   “Unfortunately there’s nothing in place to really safeguard people,” she said.

   Geoffrey Thyne, a geological consultant for Garfield County, believes methane levels in domestic water wells south of Silt have been increasing, at least partly because of drilling. But oil and gas regulators and the industry have disagreed with his conclusions.

   Bill Barrett Corp. spokesman Jim Felton said the company will continue cooperating in the Miller well investigation, but it is “quite confident” there Is no link between its operations and the methane in the well.

   Leftovers from Gov. Owen’s legacy or maybe they are searching for O&G jobs, some COGCC staff seem to support the industry’s artificial claim that “we can do no harm” — even when they can see/smell/test the contamination.

   Heaven help Colorado tourism if SCOGA McDrill is elected.  

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