Colorado: Frac invasion on fentanyl; API says its members are “committed” to the usual. Save The Aurora Reservoir fighting to keep out monster 150 well frac project. Keep fighting! Lethbridge and Big Oil Calgary Alberta kept frac’ing out, you can too!

Residents protest residential mega fracking site near Aurora Reservoir by Shaul Turner, Apr 9, 2025, KDVR

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — The fight continues against a plan to create what could become one of Colorado’s biggest residential fracking sites near the Aurora Reservoir.

The Lowry Ranch comprehensive area plan was approved in 2024, opening the door for the state Sunlight-Long well pad which would place more than 150 new oil and gas wells on 32,000 acres of land near the reservoir just east of E-470.

The nonprofit Save The Aurora Reservoir represents neighbors who say the wells would create health and safety hazards.

“I feel like there’s a lot of us that believe Colorado is still a beautiful and pristine state but when we look at these places and think about what they’re planning and we look at what has happened to Weld County it gives me pause,” STAR President Randy Willard told FOX31.

The group pushed for public hearings on the matter.

“The number of letters we sent last week was somewhere around 1500 and that is more than has ever been sent in total in the state,” said Willard.

Last August, the Civitas company told FOX31 that the project included “extensive stakeholder engagement to ensure the safe development of Colorado’s important natural resources, while protecting the environment and minimizing impacts to our communities.”It’s not possible to protect the environment while frac’ing, small, large or mega sized. Frac’ers intentionally contaminate and permanently remove billions of gallons of drinking water from the hydrogeological cycle (this has been known since 2012) while climate chaos caused by human over population, over consumption and pollution drive ever wilder wildfires, and droughts. It’s nothing but insanity, for humanity to keep frac’ing and intentionally destroy water, vital to life, essential to fight wildfires.

Willard says one concern of those who live around the reservoir is that fumes from the wells will travel into their homes.

Frac fumes in Alberta, Canada. The stench is real and vile and poisonous.

Image by FrackingCanada

“We all share the air; the industry always tells us that we’re wrong about these things but the reality is air moves, so air in this case (and) the water for 400,000 people,” he said.

STAR tells FOX31 residents will not stop fighting even though they believe they will eventually see wells on the reservoir’s horizon.

“I think ultimately these things will be permitted. I am hoping that between delays in getting into the ground, delays in some of the legal processes and whatnot, that the price of oil comes down to the point where these things no longer make sense,” said Willard.

FOX31 reached out to the American Petroleum Institute. Executive Director Kait Schwartz provided the following statement.

“API’s members are committed to protecting the environment, and the health and safety of all who share it. Our industry is dedicated to upholding Arapahoe County’s recently-updated regulations, and we will continue to support efforts that protect our communities and environment and promote the long-term success of Colorado’s energy industry.”If that were true what you say API, you would push to criminalize frac’ing, not pimp it on innocent families saying NO! to you. The oil, gas and frac industry, and it’s harm and pollution enablers like API and CAPP and our industry serving regulators and politicos, have proven over many years, that they are cruel invasive liars, their commitments mean nothing but get the frac’ers in, no matter who dies, who is poisoned, whose homes, schools and or businesses are ruined in frac quakes, or whose sleep is ruined for years. The harms goes on and on and on, never mind the poisoned drinking water. Courts are corrupt and enable the polluters. The only regulation that is sane, is to criminalize frac’ing.

Refer also to:

2012: AEA: Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health arising from hydrocarbons operations involving hydraulic fracturing in Europe

A proportion (25% to 100%) of the water used in hydraulic fracturing is not recovered, and consequently this water is lost permanently to re-use, which differs from some other water uses in which water can be recovered and processed for re-use.

2015: Fracing’s long reach: New Study says Fracking Wells Could Pollute The Air Hundreds Of Miles Away

2015: Oil and gas industry pollution travels hundreds of kilometres, No wonder Harper is muzzling Canadian scientists

2017: New Peer-Reviewed Paper: A systematic evaluation of chemicals in hydraulic-fracturing fluids and wastewater for reproductive and developmental toxicity

2020: Harvard researchers suggest not living within 12 miles of frac’ing – that puts much of rural Alberta and NEBC out of bounds for living (and parts of SK, MB and Ont)

2020: Pennsylvania Grand Jury Nails It: Hydraulic fracturing is poisoning us (AER & BC OGC are much more corrupt and industry-controlled regulators than PA’s DEP)

2021: New Study, Fracking Kills: Cumulative exposure to frac’ing increases heart attacks among middle-aged and older residents in Pennsylvania. “Bans on hydraulic fracturing can be protective for public health.”

2021: Frac’ing takes our eyesight too? New study: Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss

2022: A first: Harvard study links frac’ing air pollution to early deaths among nearby residents, both up and downwind of wells. The Guardian: “This would mean thousands of premature deaths linked to the oil and gas boom….”

2023: Frac Compendium 9: From 65 studies to “an avalanche” of nearly 2,500 showing evidence of harm from frac’ing. Dr. Sandra Steingraber: “Fracking resembles lead paint or indoor smoking — no rules or regulations can make these practices safe.”

2024: New research: Fossil fuel pollution irreversibly harms kids’ brains, including causing cancer. Imagine babies born into and growing up in bitumen, H2S and or frac fields (rampant in Alberta) where crews spew clouds of diesel fumes and facilities blast out mystery chemicals 24/7 for years on end as they frac and refrac and refrac. No wonder Albertans vote so stupidly.