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NCAR OZONE RPT.2017.pdf AtteteAtek
From: Linda Kane
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 12:57 PM
To: Karla Ford <kford@weldgov.com>
Subject: FW: Greeley and Weld County Should Update O&G Regulations
Karla,
I think this was meant for the Commissioners.
Thanks,
Linda
From: Maydean Worley [ma ilto:mamworl@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:45 AM
To: Rochelle.Galindo@greeleygov.com
Subject: Greeley and Weld County Should Update O&G Regulations
The Martinez vs COGCC court ruling states that the COGCC does not and must put health and safety first when siting
well pads
Cities like Dacono are updating regulations to further protect health and safety of residents (see Dacono article below).
Greeley should implement new zoning regulations that further protect citizens also. Specifically, Greeley should look at
how close well pads should be allowed near inhabited structures and how close developers can place new structures to
well pads. Weld County should also.
www.timescall.com/carbon.../dacono-implements-six-month-oil-and-gas-moratorium ALtacJ4.A
Also, read the just published scientific report (source sited in my notes below) about the NOAA flyover and excerpts I
saved from the study.
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NCAR OZONE RPT. 2017
Based on 2014 data from National Center for Atmospheric Research
Report Title: Process -Based and Regional Source Impact Analysis for FRAPPE and
DISCOVER-AQ 2014
Source: https://www.colorado.gov/airauality/tech doc repository.aspx?
action=open&file=FRAPPE-NCAR Final Report July2017.pdf
Excerpts
• Mobile sources [vehicles] and oil and gas related emissions are the largest contributors to local
ozone production in the NFRMA. On average, oil and gas emissions show a stronger
influence in the northern part of the NFRMA and the northern foothills [emphasis mine],
while mobile emissions dominate farther south and in the southern foothills. Both sectors
contribute, on average, 30-40% each to total NFRMA ozone production on high ozone days.
• Industrial emissions contribute somewhat less to NFRMA ozone on average, but can dominate
locally, as is the case in and around Commerce City.
• Measures resulting in lowering the emissions from oil and gas as well as from mobile sources
could result in substantial reductions of NFRMA ozone.
• Ozone production in the northern part of the NFRMA is, on average, more NOx limited while
the southern part of the NFRMA is closer to being VOC limited in some places. This places
emphasis on NOx availability for efficient ozone production in the Greeley, Loveland and
Fort Collins urban areas. [Emphasis mine]
• Current emission assessment indicates that lowering NOx emissions in Weld county
would have a larger effect on lowering ozone than VOC emission controls from the O&G
sector. However, this is only the case if NOx emissions from the mobile sector do not
increase in this area, which could be the case given the increasing push of suburban
development into the eastern sections of the NFRMA.
• We have identified a number of point sources which, at the time of measurement, emitted
alarming amounts of highly reactive and toxic VOC. Some of these sources were not part of
the emission inventory. From the sporadic observations made during FRAPPE it is impossible
to tell what fraction these sources contribute to the derived adjustments to the VOC emissions
in the oil and gas sector, for example. Better constrained emission inventories would help State
Implementation Plan (SIP) modeling efforts and greatly aid the process of developing effective
ozone reduction strategies.
My addition
— This report is based on 2014 data from the NOAA flyover. O&G has increased in Weld
County and will continue to increase in the future. This makes Weld County increasingly
susceptible to more pollution in the future.
— Weld County NOX and VOCs are 88,886 tons per year (from report).
— The above figure is more than all emissions from the rest of the state added together,
including Denver County.
— Comparisons from this study and what the EPA reports means the EPA is either
underestimating or underreporting emissions.
Longmont mayor's support
for loo percent renewable -
energy goal draws applause
Longmont Mayor Brian Bagley's statement of his personal commitment to
working toward achieving a "10o percent clean, renewable energy supply"
for the city by the year 2030 drew applause from about 20 people who
showed up for Bagley's reading of his proclamation at Tuesday night's City
Council meeting.
source: http://www.timescall.com/carbon.../dacono-implements-six-
month-oil-and-gas-moratorium
downloaded today 12/5/2017
check with the Longmont City Council for more information about the
proclamation.
2 days ago, 12.3.2017
Longmont Mayor Brian
Bagley to back ioo 0
renewable -energy goal
Pledge comes with admission: 'I am not king' of city
By John Fryar
Editor's Note: An earlier online version of this story gave an
incorrect last name for Abby Driscoll, chairwoman of Sustainable
Resilient Longmont. That has been corrected below.
Longmont Mayor Brian Bagley on Tuesday is to proclaim his personal
commitment to work with the city's municipal utility and its power
provider toward achieving a goal of "a ioo percent clean, renewable
electricity supply by the year 2030."
Bagley's proclamation, which he's scheduled to read during Tuesday
night's City Council meeting, expresses his intent to work
collaboratively with Longmont Power and Communications and the
Platte River Power Authority board of directors "to continue
diversifying" LPC's and PRPA's energy portfolio "and adding carbon -
free energy" in that effort.
The mayor's proclamation stops short, however, of committing the
current and future Longmont City Councils and Longmont Power and
Communications to provide all of the city's municipal electric utility
customers with energy from renewable -power, non -fossil -fuel sources
by 2O3O.
"I am not king of Longmont," Bagley said on Friday.
He said he hoped, however, that the goal and ideas stated in his
proclamation will be picked up by enough fellow council members that
they might pass a council resolution supporting the proclamation's
points and the 2O3O renewable -energy target.
"It's a goal, and more importantly, it's an attainable goal. It's an
achievable goal," Bagley
said.
Abby Driscoll, chairwoman of Sustainable Resilient Longmont, said
Friday that Bagley's proclamation is "an important step" toward
achieving a ioo percent renewable -energy goal.
"We thank Mayor Bagley for bringing this forward," Driscoll said.
"We're thrilled to see Longmont taking action to move forward."
In October, the Sustainable Resilient Longmont organization
unsuccessfully sought then -Mayor Dennis Coombs' signature on a
proclamation committing the city to a renewable -sources energy goal.
Coombs declined to do so, in part because of what he said would be
the probable higher expense that Longmont Power and
Communications would have to pass along to its ratepayers to cover
the costs of completing the final stages of transitioning away from
carbon energy sources such as coal and natural gas.
Coombs told Sustainable resilient Longmont activists attending an
Oct. 17 City Council meeting that while achieving loo percent
renewables was his own goal, he believed that accomplishing the final
phases would be "extremely difficult and extremely expensive."
Coombs also questioned whether the technology will be available to
achieve I0o percent renewable energy sources for Longmont and the
Platte River Power Authority by 2030.
Sustainable Resilient Longmont members and supporters, though,
have contended that wind and solar power will be cheaper than energy
fueled by coal and natural gas and that there will be power storage
capability available by then.
The proclamation Bagley is scheduled to issue on Tuesday night states
that "it is critically important" for Longmont Power and
Communications and the Platte River Power Authority "to be
economically responsible" in continuing to work toward the ioo
percent renewable -energy goal.
That's important, the proclamation says, "so the city can continue
providing affordable energy to our most vulnerable residents, those on
fixed incomes, including the elderly and working families to make
ends meet."
Bagley's proclamation also says "the need for reliable and affordable
energy to attract and retain local businesses and spur economic
development is vital to our community's success in a highly
competitive and increasingly global marketplace."
However, the proclamation state's Bagley's confidence "that
technological advances will provide increasing opportunities to
incorporate more renewable energy into Longmont's electric -
generation resource mix without significantly impacting the
affordability of that energy."
Bagley said he consulted with Longmont Power and Communications
and Platte River Power Authority officials and the city manager's office
in preparing and drafting his resolution and that he also provided a
draft to Sustainable Resilient Longmont.
"Nobody lobbied me" to issue the proclamation, Bagley said. "I
decided to do it before anybody asked."
He said, "I think everybody can agree that energy independence is a
good thing," and that 10o percent renewable energy can be achieved
without negatively impacting the environment.
Meanwhile, the Platte River Power Authority, the wholesale electricity
generation and transmission provider for Longmont, Loveland, Estes
Park and Fort Collins, is scheduled on Thursday afternoon to present
the results of a study of PRPA's energy resources and the feasibility
and production costs of pursuing a zero -net -carbon resource.
That 3 p.m. Thursday public town hall presentation of the study at the
Hilton Fort Collins is also scheduled to be made to the Longmont City
Council on Dec. 19.
NCAR OZONE RPT. 2017
Based on 2014 data from National Center for Atmospheric Research
Report Title: Process -Based and Regional Source Impact Analysis for FRAPPE and
DISCOVER-AQ 2014
Source: https://www.colorado.gov/airquality/tech doc repository.aspx?
action=open&file=FRAPPE-NCAR Final Report July2017.pdf
Excerpts
• Mobile sources [vehicles] and oil and gas related emissions are the largest contributors to local
ozone production in the NFRMA. On average, oil and gas emissions show a stronger
influence in the northern part of the NFRMA and the northern foothills [emphasis mine],
while mobile emissions dominate farther south and in the southern foothills. Both sectors
contribute, on average, 30-40% each to total NFRMA ozone production on high ozone days.
• Industrial emissions contribute somewhat less to NFRMA ozone on average, but can dominate
locally, as is the case in and around Commerce City.
• Measures resulting in lowering the emissions from oil and gas as well as from mobile sources
could result in substantial reductions of NFRMA ozone.
• Ozone production in the northern part of the NFRMA is, on average, more NOx limited while
the southern part of the NFRMA is closer to being VOC limited in some places. This places
emphasis on NOx availability for efficient ozone production in the Greeley, Loveland and
Fort Collins urban areas. [Emphasis mine]
• Current emission assessment indicates that lowering NOx emissions in Weld county
would have a larger effect on lowering ozone than VOC emission controls from the O&G
sector. However, this is only the case if NOx emissions from the mobile sector do not
increase in this area, which could be the case given the increasing push of suburban
development into the eastern sections of the NFRMA.
• We have identified a number of point sources which, at the time of measurement, emitted
alarming amounts of highly reactive and toxic VOC. Some of these sources were not part of
the emission inventory. From the sporadic observations made during FRAPPE it is impossible
to tell what fraction these sources contribute to the derived adjustments to the VOC emissions
in the oil and gas sector, for example. Better constrained emission inventories would help State
Implementation Plan (SIP) modeling efforts and greatly aid the process of developing effective
ozone reduction strategies.
My addition
— This report is based on 2014 data from the NOAA flyover. O&G has increased in Weld
County and will continue to increase in the future. This makes Weld County increasingly
susceptible to more pollution in the future.
— Weld County NOX and VOCs are 88,886 tons per year (from report).
—The above figure is more than all emissions from the rest of the state added together,
including Denver County.
— Comparisons from this study and what the EPA reports means the EPA is either
underestimating or underreporting emissions.
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