This map shows oil & gas locations identified in data published by the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) on December 13, 2024 regarding at least 344 falsified laboratory data reports made to the ECMC since 2015 for spill remediation projects operated by Chevron (278 locations) and Oxy (66 locations), who contracted environmental testing by Eagle Environmental Consulting, Inc. and Tasman, Inc.
The ECMC is prioritizing investigation of the Closed locations within municipalities. Not shown are several sites in far northeast Weld County.
The map was compiled using GIS data downloaded from the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) web site at https://ecmc.state.co.us/ on December 13, 2024. Other geographic data sourced from OpenStreetMaps.
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Data Sources
- Highways, major roads, local roads, water, and waterways from OpenStreetMap data for Colorado, courtesy of Geofabrik and the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
- Data falsification dataset from the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC fka COGCC).