Permits show drilling and development are on collision course in northeastern Colorado
▻http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/06/oil-gas-drilling-permits-development-construction-northeast-colorado
The clash between growing communities and oil and gas production in northeastern Colorado, heightened by a deadly home explosion last spring, will only intensify in coming years, a Denver Post analysis of drilling permits suggests.
The Post analyzed pending and approved drilling permits in and around the sprawling Wattenberg Field in Weld, Larimer, Boulder, Adams and Broomfield counties, and found that permits are being taken out in and near towns and other populated areas twice as often as in more remote rural areas.