Data Integrity – Erie Protectors

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025

ECMC Data Integrity/Falsification Update from Director Murphy

At their regularly scheduled April 2, 2025 meeting, the ECMC Commissioners heard an update from Director Julie Murphy about the data integrity/falsification regarding spill sample laboratory analyses by Eagle Environmental Consulting and Tasman, Inc.

In Summary

“[T]he data presents no new or increased risk to public welfare, safety, or the environment; however, it does mean in some instances that the duration that a spill has impacted the environment may have been extended.”
“Of the 344 sites, we are prioritizing our remediation work and investigation on the 35-40 closed locations within municipalities.”
“Since December, staff has verified an additional nine sites from Oxy and Chevron, and we have also received self-reported data from Civitas on their impacted sites based on their self-review. This adds roughly 46 sites that are operated by Civitas. … Forty-four are in unincorporated Weld County, one is in the town of Frederick, and one is in the town of Firestone.”

An updated map and data set will be made available soon; we’ll update this post and the ECMC Data Falsification Map with the 46 new sites any additional information.

December 14, 2024December 14, 2024

ECMC Data Integrity: Erie Locations

Of the 344 locations identified by the Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) that are a part of the data falsification initially reported in November, 2024, 5 are in and around Erie, Colorado. Below are additional details about the spills and remediation efforts at these sites.

ECMC Data Falsification Map

This map shows oil & gas locations identified in data published by the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) on April 4, 2025 regarding at least 399 falsified laboratory data reports made to the ECMC since 2015 for spill remediation projects operated by Chevron (279 locations), Oxy (74 locations), and Civitas (46 locations), who contracted environmental testing by Eagle Environmental Consulting, Inc. and Tasman, Inc.

December 13, 2024December 13, 2024

ECMC Data Integrity Preliminary Statistics

Today, we were finally given a list of the locations affected by the falsified laboratory data reports made to the ECMC. Here is a preliminary breakdown of how and where these affected locations are distributed.

December 13, 2024December 13, 2024

ECMC Data Integrity Update Transcript

The following is a transcript of the virtual meeting held by the ECMC Commissioners on Friday, December 13 to address the falsified laboratory data reports made to the ECMC. Where appropriate, we have edited the transcript for clarity and brevity, and added emphasis to improve readability.

Julie Murphy: Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Commissioners, and thanks to folks who are tuning in early this morning.

My name is Julie Murphy, and I’m the director of the Energy and Carbon Management Commission. I am, of course, disappointed by the circumstances that lead to today’s hearing, yet I’m grateful for the opportunity to share more information that members of the public, that each of you, that the press, and our local government partners have been curious about.

The purpose of the hearing is for me to provide an update about our ongoing investigation. I would remind us all this is an active ongoing investigation, and we are balancing transparency and accountability in our enforcement process.