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.
Oil and gas well northeast of Greeley still releasing; Community meeting scheduled
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…