{"id":31585,"date":"2023-09-09T00:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T06:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-energy-and-carbon-commission-plans-to-visit-cortez-and-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:43:33","slug":"colorado-energy-and-carbon-commission-plans-to-visit-cortez-and-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-energy-and-carbon-commission-plans-to-visit-cortez-and-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado energy and carbon commission plans to visit Cortez and Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a0c22c7b-6f9c-4d8d-8422-dc274a73d2a6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1015\" alt=\"A 2017 picture of an abandoned oil well near Red Mesa, 30 miles southwest of Durango. Since the 2019 passing of Senate Bill 181, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is focusing on the regulation of the industry.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A 2017 picture of an abandoned oil well near Red Mesa, 30 miles southwest of Durango. Since the 2019 passing of Senate Bill 181, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is focusing on the regulation of the industry.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission changed its name to Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, they will hold two public meetings in Southwest Colorado later this month.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release, commissioners will give information about the name change and its expanded mission.<\/p>\n<p>They want to learn about Cortez\u2019s and Durango\u2019s local stances; engage and listen to the community.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the public meetings, they will visit oil and gas sites and meet with stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn July 1, the Commission became the Colorado Energy &amp; Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) with an expanded regulatory scope to include deep geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and underground natural gas storage, as well as continuing regulating the development and production of oil and gas. The name is new, but the mission of the ECMC is still to regulate in a manner that is protective of public health, safety, welfare, wildlife and the environment,\u201d ECMC Chair Jeff Robbins said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese visits to communities are critical to learn about their unique issues and concerns, to provide information on the new technologies ECMC will regulate, to hear what is important to the communities, and to provide information on how to participate at the ECMC, including upcoming rulemakings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public meetings will be held at:<\/p>\n<p>Durango:<\/p>\n<p>5 \u2013 6:30pm, Wednesday, Sept. 20<\/p>\n<p>Durango Parks and Recreation Building, 2700 Main Ave., Durango<\/p>\n<p>             Cortez:<\/p>\n<p>4:30 \u2013 6pm, Thursday, Sept. 21<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Chamber of Commerce, 20 W. Main St., Cortez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings with public and oil and gas stakeholders planned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-31585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81498,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31585\/revisions\/81498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31585"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}