Colorado’s now averaging 2 oil and gas spills per day

As oil and gas operations ramp up in Colorado, spills, too, are having their heyday. In the year 2014, according to a Denver Post analysis, they’re occuring at a rate of two per day. It’s perhaps an inevitable facet of life in a state slated to be the next North Dakota, and yet residents, some of whom have industrial drilling occurring “right over the backyard fence,” never end up hearing about many of them.

Using data from a Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) database, the Post calculated that...