Groups Suing Over Gas Drilling Near Homes In Battlement Mesa
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- A group of residents has filed a lawsuit to stop a plan to drill for natural gas near mobile homes in western Colorado. The Daily Sentinel reports that Battlement Concerned Citizens and the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance sued the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in Denver District Court.
They are asking that the court intervene on a plan by Ursa Resources to drill 24 gas wells and operate a wastewater injection well a little more than 500 feet (152 meters) from homes.
The groups contend that the location presents a hazard to the Battlement Mesa community, an unincorporated community of several thousand.
Travis Duncan, of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, declined comment.
Ursa spokesman Don Simpson said the company believes there is no basis for the suit.
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