Clark Resource Council: Take Action Now!

Take Action Now!

Tell Wyoming officials to make the energy industry clean up its messes—BEFORE IT MAKES MORE!

Because they’re exempt from safe drinking water, clean air, and clean water laws, oil and gas development activities in Wyoming threaten to contaminate our groundwater and our environment through bad drilling practices.

And Wyoming state officials, who should be monitoring and regulating these activities, are failing to hold the companies fully accountable.

In fact, Windsor Energy Group—the company responsible for last year’s gas well blowout near Clark—is now rushing through applications to drill two new wells close by.

Clark Resource Council believes that state officials should make the oil and gas industry clean up its existing messes before granting the companies permission to make even more. If you agree, please join us in asking the state to pay attention to people, not just corporations.

Here’s a sample letter, but please feel free to put it in your own words:

Dear _______,

Future drilling for oil, gas and associated hydrocarbons in the Line Creek Drainage have the potential to further impact waters of the State of Wyoming. Windsor Energy Group, LLC (Wexford Capital, LLC) has applied to drill two additional wells, the Crosby 25-4 and Crosby 25-5, in the Line Creek Drainage where Windsor’s Crosby 25-3 gas well blowout has already contaminated groundwater. In light of Windsor’s dismal record of spills, groundwater contamination, soil contamination and Notices of Violation and the fact that no evaluation has been undertaken to determine whether contamination is being actively sourced by the gas/condensate reservoirs, we believe that the State of Wyoming’s only responsible course of action is to enact a drilling moratorium on Windsor, and all other companies, for any future drilling activities in the Line Creek drainage until remediation has been accomplished. Public health and protection of the State’s groundwater and surface water (Line Creek) must be the top priority.

Sincerely,
Your Name
Your Address

Send your message by e-mail or call: Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission members:

Governor Dave Freudenthal; Chairman; governor@state.wy.us
Lynne Boomgaarden, Director, State Lands and Investments; lboomg@state.wy.us (307) 777-6523
Ronald C. Surdam, State Geologist; rsurdam@uwyo.edu (307) 766-2286 Ext: 223
Donald B. Basko; Citizens Representative; (307) 235-6449
Robert A. King; bobking06@qwest.net ; (307) 266-5464

and

Don Likwartz, Supervisor, Oil and Gas Conservation Commission; dlikwa@state.wy.us