{"id":1318408,"date":"2020-02-24T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/state-senate-confirms-interim-cogcc-appointments\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T03:20:00","slug":"state-senate-confirms-interim-cogcc-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/state-senate-confirms-interim-cogcc-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"State Senate confirms interim COGCC appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) announced Monday that the Colorado Senate has confirmed the volunteer commissioners appointed by Gov. Jared Polis to implement SB 19-181.<\/p>\n

SB 181, signed into law in April 2019 by Gov. Jared Polis, shifts the mission of the COGCC from \u201cfostering\u201d oil and gas production to \u201cregulating\u201d the industry, with a priority given to impacts on community health and the environment and greater provisions for local control.<\/p>\n

The COGCC has been in the formal rulemaking process since late last year, and expects to conclude that process this spring.<\/p>\n

The new law seated an interim volunteer board, with members having agricultural, environmental, oil and gas industry, local government, public health, wildlife and technical expertise.<\/p>\n

According to a COGCC press release issued Monday, those terms expire at the end of June, and the COGCC\u2019s first professional commission will replace the current all-volunteer commission in July. Applications are currently being accepted for those appointments, to be appointed by the governor, with the Senate\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n

The Professional Commission is to include the executive directors of both the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Public Health and Environment as ex officio non-voting members. The other five commissioners are to include a member with substantial experience in the oil and gas industry; planning or land use; environmental protection, wildlife protection or reclamation; public health; and, \u201cability to contribute to the commission\u2019s body of expertise that will aid the commission in making sound, balanced decisions,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n

Serving on the interim board have been:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Denver lawyer Erin Alene Overturf, to serve as a member with formal or substantial experience in environmental protection (Democrat).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Denver lawyer Howard Lawrence Boigon, to serve as a member with substantial experience in the oil and gas industry (Democrat).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gunnison County Commissioner John August Messner, to serve as a member representing local government and as a member west of the Continental Divide (Democrat).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Liane Rachel Jollon of Durango, to serve as a member with formal training or substantial experience in public health and as a member west of the Continental Divide (Unaffiliated).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mark David Hopkins of Broomfield, to serve as a member with technical expertise relevant to the issues considered by the commission (Republican).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pamela Pride Eaton of Boulder, to serve as a member with formal or substantial experience in wildlife protection (Democrat).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brenda Ann Haun of Grover, to serve as a member actively engaged in agriculture or royalty ownership (Unaffiliated).<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) announced Monday that the Colorado Senate has confirmed the volunteer commissioners appointed by Gov. Jared Polis to implement SB 19-181. SB 181, signed into law in April 2019 by Gov. Jared Polis, shifts the mission of the COGCC from \u201cfostering\u201d oil and gas production to \u201cregulating\u201d the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:52:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}