All Local, All The Time
All Local, All The Time
A well-pad north of Lookout Road, on City of Boulder Open Space land.
A rig to replace a cap on the well located directly southwest of the Park and Ride at Niwot and Hwy. 287
A large site with over 20 wells, located just east of Anderson Farms along Hwy. 52
A newer industrial-size drilling pad. The newest fracking project by Extraction Oil and Gas in Broomfield is larger than this, with 84 wells planned across six different pads along Northwest Parkway. Photo by Amanda Janusz
Giant drilling rig west of I-25 and Erie Parkway. The wall is approximately 20 feet high.
An aerial shot of the Anderson Farms-area wells.
An aerial shot of the site in the photo to the left, taken by satellite during the drilling process.The vehicles denoted are semi-trucks.
Fracking has been at the forefront of the news for several years, and we live in an area peppered with fracking equipment and the various accoutrements that accompany the controversial extraction method. Proposition 112 did not pass in the last election; had it passed, the distance that fracking operations would have to be from sites such as school, homes, and public spaces would have been 2,500 feet.
State law currently allows wells to be 1,000 feet from high-occupancy buildings such as schools and hospitals, 500 feet from occupied buildings such as homes, and 350 feet from outdoor areas like playgrounds.
How much do you know? How many fracking well sites do you drive past on a daily basis, or how close do you live or work to a fracking well pad? In the interest of disseminating information to our readers and community members, the LHVC presents this short visual primer on recognizing gas and oil wells in our neighborhoods.
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