The two upper North Fork Valley drilling projects will total up to 226 wells and result in up to 17.26 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions over a 30-year period, The Daily Sentinel reported Wednesday.
That figure amounts to “a very small percentage (approximately 0.2%) of expected emissions from all oil and gas sources in Colorado for the same 30-year period,” said Stephanie Connolly, manager of the BLM’s Colorado Southwest District, in her findings.
The plans involve the companies SG Interests and Gunnison Energy.
In 2019, a judge had ruled that the Trump administration did not adequately examine the indirect environmental impacts of burning oil and gas and its effect on the local deer and elk populations.