Unique partnership plugs old, leaking wells in Colorado
A new and unique partnership is using an innovative, market-driven approach to clean up these well sites and return them to nature.
- A new and unique partnership is using an innovative, market-driven approach to clean up these well sites and return them to nature.
- To date, they are working collaboratively on nearly four dozen sites in northeastern Colorado that are high on the state’s clean up priority list.
- The Senator was also joined by officials from Adams County and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and representatives from Environmental Defense Fund and Conservation Colorado.
- "When wells are left unattended, it is the nearby low-income communities of color in Colorado that suffer the most severe health consequences,” said Lorena Gonzalez, Communities & Justice Manager at Conservation Colorado.