Broomfield

While they are unlikely to impact future production totals and may face court challenges, local community anti-hydraulic fracturing (fracking) ballot measures are likely to continue to emerge, the head of the Colorado Oil/Gas Association (COGA) told NGI’s Shale Daily on Thursday.

With ballot initiatives to ban or curtail hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on tap in five Colorado cities this November, the center of Rocky Mountain energy development has become a litmus test on voter attitudes toward the well stimulation practice.

Colorado’s top oil and natural gas regulator told executives in Denver Tuesday that adopting a culture in the onshore that goes above and beyond what’s legally required will do more than anything to achieve community acceptance.