Heres a map of every oil and gas well in the state of Colorado

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8. That's terrifying. I'm so sorry.

I live on the Weld County border (when they finally declare war on all us godless liberal commies, my street will be the front line... :eyeroll: ) and the dividing line is stark. On the BoCo side? A few blues - capped, dry or otherwise inactive. On the Weld side - solid red. But it's all the same air. The same water. It leaches through the soil.

We used to live in Brighton, and back then, we knew when weather was incoming because we'd catch the CAFOs on the wind N to S wind. When we moved west 16 years ago, we almost never caught the scent, but over the last couple of years, it's been increasingly common when there's low pressure coming over the Flatirons and high pressure sitting west of I-25. That tells me the concentration of methane (and everything else) is getting higher.

We've got to keep oil and gas on the same zoning footing as every other industry, and we've got to get mandatory pooling off the books. There's no reason O&G are such magical, pretty pony, special snowflakes that they get special rights not available to any other industry.