Next meeting date to be announced shortly. Thank you.
The Empowering Erie Event Series was a huge success! Thank you to our neighbors who came and participated. Thank you also to our experts and elected officials for supporting us and working through these essential issues. If your submitted question was not addressed at the last meeting, we will continue working through these together as a community at future Erie Rising meetings.
If you are a representative of an oil and gas company, environmental organization, political party or any other entity, please email contact@erierising.com to request to be added to an upcoming Erie Rising Meeting agenda.
Thank you for respecting our time as a community to communicate with our neighbors!
I am interested to be part of this movement.
Nice job.
There are many excellent infrared videos on YouTube of drilling air pollution. There will be the same type of emissions from wells and condensate tanks and processor stations seen in the video in Erie. Colorado has been out of compliance with the Clean Air Act for several years for ozone. Ozone is formed by these emissions, along with photochemical smog containing VOCs. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has a great video here…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ybofaO9wI&feature=youtu.be
Infrared photography is used by the EPA to check invisible air emissions. It uses a FlirGasFindIR HSX infrared camera that was designed to detect gas emissions (such as methane, benzene and toluene) from oil and gas industry facilities. These are known human carcinogens. Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) hired a certified infrared videographer recommended by Flir who normally works for the gas industry. The videographer detected hydrocarbon gases being emitted from 11 of 15 sites examined. CBF then showed the video to three independent experts, and sent the video to EPA as evidence of emissions of methane and/or other hydrocarbon gases.
The cumulative effect of these emissions on human health has not been studied and will not be studied. If it weren’t for the severance tax money the state of Colorado gets from this industry, we would be bankrupt, schools would close and one can only imagine what type of austerity programs we would be seeing. Our governor is well aware of this, and our leaders will do nothing to stop the flow of much needed cash into our state coffers. This industry is untouchable as long as it writes the regulations and we have no leadership in our state government agencies. These agencies need to be cleaned out and staffed with new graduates who are not in the pockets of the polluters. It ain’t rocket science.
If we want health impacts to be studied, we taxpayers will have need to pay higher taxes. Gone are the days of governments affording to do expensive studies. Industrial polluters have a long history of not studying the effects of pollution on human health prior to putting their products into commerce, otherwise they would have no business!
The natural gas producers are passing the cost of the studies and the cost of the impending health problems to consumers. We then pay for it again in the form of higher health insurance premiums, medical bankruptcies and foreclosures. No wonder our economy is in the toilet, at least for 99% of us anyway.
Natural gas is not the clean industry it claims to be… as long as scientific evidence is ignored and even silenced (such as was done by the Garfield County Commissioners on the study it hired the Colorado School of Public Health to do on the health impacts from drilling in Battlement Mesa….see http://www.postindependent.com/article/20110502/VALLEYNEWS/110509978 ).
Drilling is a cost passed on to the citizens of Erie, and all of Colorado and the nation. The Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission have failed to protect public health by making rules weak and lacking staff to inspect and enforce laws.
Only our counties and municipalities can stop these corporations from forcing us to pay higher taxes. Until we stop them, we permit these corporations to violate our rights to private property, life and the pursuit of happiness.
To: Erie Rising, I am a Longmont, Co. resident. I would like to bring the following COGCC Rules to the attention of the Colorado General Public:
Article 906 b.1: reportable spills/releases of E & P waste or produced fluid (are those that EXCEED FIVE BARRELS), (smaller spills generally are not reportable. Read 906b 1-6
Article 205e: Confidentiality Agreement (for Health Care Profesionals)*
Form 35: Confidentiality/Anti Disclosure Agreement for Health Care Professionals*
I have asked the Colorado Medical Association (8000 members) what their opinion of these rules is. These rules forbid Health Care Professionals from distributing information to the general public relevant to the treatment of patients affected by O & G operations. I expect a reply next week. I would like to ask you to analyze their response when I send it to you and use every means at your disposal to inform the public. The Statements made by our State Government and the various
O & G Commissions are very incomplete and misleading.
I have the time and the motivation to assist you in this effort.
Yours truly,
Mike Coccoli
* the official titles might be slightly different, please check
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I am very excited to have come across your website and am planning to attend your next meeting!
Thank you,
Rebecca
Hi, would like to get involved with this group. I am very concerned about the wells around anthem ranch.
Please let me know where I can get the name and positions of those that participated in the panel discussion on Thursday at your recreation center.
Thank you
Bob:
Sonya Lunder, Senior Analyst EWG
Mark Williams, University of Colorado
Phil Doe, Be The Change
Wes Wilson, Retired EPA
Cheryl Hauger, Mayor Pro Tem Erie, CO
Rhonda Grassi, Trustee, Erie, CO
Mark Gruber, Trustee, Erie, CO
Thank you