Crestone Peak Resources – Page 2

November 21, 2017July 15, 2025

How much water does fracking use, Part II

In Part I, we showed how Crestone Peak Resources had used 160,349,639 gallons of water to frack the 13 wells at the Waste Connections and Pratt sites. Sadly, it gets worse. Between the Morgan Hills, Woolley-Becky, and Woolley-Sosa sites, Crestone Peak Resources used 225,137,194 gallons of water to frack 22 wells.

So all together now:

Crestone Peak Resources has used three hundred eighty-five million, four hundred eighty-six thousand, eight hundred thirty-three gallons of water to drill 35 wells on five pads in Erie, Colorado.

How much water does fracking use?

Recently, we stumbled upon FracFocus, an additional resource linked from the COGCC complaint site. FracFocus allows the public to view “Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Product Component Information Disclosure” documents that include some summary information for each well, as well as a detailed chemical composition of the fluids injected at each well head. We ran the numbers for Waste Connections and Pratt, and came up with a single catastrophic statistic: 160,349,639 gallons of water.

November 16, 2017July 15, 2025

Erie town trustees tell angry residents they were unaware of venting near school, launch probe

With the support of neighbors from surrounding communities, Erie residents voiced their concerns about the volatile organic compounds released at the plug & abandon operations near Aspen Ridge Preparatory School and the Kiddie Academy of Erie.

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October 25, 2017July 15, 2025

Erie neighbors concerned about new gas pipeline close to homes

Once again, Jennifer Kovaleski from 7News is in Vista Ridge to talk about fracking. This time, it’s the raw natural gas gathering lines being installed within 100 ft of existing homes by Anadarko Petroleum. Once they start building units in the Red Tail Ranch development, homes will be even closer to this line.

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October 20, 2017July 15, 2025

Erie neighbors host demonstration in front of nearby fracking site

The Erie Protectors hosted a community photo shoot to replicate a photo taken by concerned community members in December 2014 to protest Crestone Peak Resources’ activities at the Waste Connections and Pratt sites just north of Vista Ridge in Erie, Colorado. We had a wonderful morning meeting like-minded neighbors opposed to oil & gas activities in our neighborhoods.

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September 14, 2017July 15, 2025

Neighbors are fed up with fracking smells, noises in Erie subdivision

Jennifer Kovaleski from Denver’s 7NEWS came to Erie to interview two residents about the odors and noise coming from the Pratt site just north of the Vista Ridge development in Erie, Colorado.

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September 13, 2017July 15, 2025

Erie goes further than the state to prevent another Firestone tragedy

On Tuesday, September 12, the Erie town trustees passed an ordinance requiring oil & gas companies to provide maps of all new and existing oil and gas pipelines in the town by October 2018.

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