OGAP State Networks

Colorado & New Mexico Oil & Gas Reform Networks:

OGAP is helping organize grassroots networks that tackle oil and gas issues on a statewide basis. OGAP's Colorado network seeks to reform the policies and practices of the industry-dominated Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. In 2003, OGAP will work with more than 20 other Colorado-based groups to clarify county authority to regulate the land use impacts of oil and gas development, allow counties to regulate the noise levels of oil and gas operations, and require the COGCC to protect the confidentiality of those reporting oil and gas violations.

OGAP's New Mexico Network will work this year to block industry attempts to rollback New Mexico's air quality standards, ban unlined pits which are used to dispose of toxic drilling chemicals and produced water, monitor industry-generated legislative proposals, and develop strategies for local reforms.

OGAP - Colorado Oil & Gas Reform Network

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More than 20 groups join the Oil & Gas Accountability Project in campaigns to reform oil and gas industry practices. Network participants include: Colorado Environmental Coalition, Common Cause, EVER (Everyone's Vision, Everyone's Responsibility), Grand Valley Citizens Alliance, High Country Citizens' Alliance, San Juan Citizens Alliance, Southern Ute Grassroots Organization, Southern Colorado CURE, East of Huajatolla Citizens Alliance, Western Colorado Congress and Western Slope Environmental Resource Council.

OGAP New Mexico Oil & Gas Reform Network

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In early January, twenty-five ranchers and environmental activists from across the state came together to launch OGAP's New Mexico Oil and Gas Network. Representatives of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, New Mexico Citizens for Clear Air and Water, San Juan Citizens Alliance, The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and a number of organizations from Aztec to Raton to Carlsbad identified common interests and specific areas in which to expand the network, and to form a Steering Committee. Network initiatives for 2003 will include: working to block the industry's attempts to rollback the state's air quality standards, enacting a ban on unlined pits used to dispose of toxic drilling chemicals and produced water, monitoring industry-generated legislative proposals, and developing strategies for local reforms.

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