An oil boom, a middle school and a fight. Lately I've been working up in Weld County, where one company is drilling a 24-well project that will sit 828 feet from Bella Romero Academy.https://nyti.ms/2xv6IYP
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Weld County is the center of this state's oil and gas activity, and these days the road leading into town is so crowded with derricks and drums that some call it the Frack Freeway.
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What makes this fracking project so controversial is that is particularly large and particularly close to a school that educates hundreds of students in grades 4-8.
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Exacerbating the tension here is a spate of deadly fires at drilling sites in Colorado....
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...as well as the company’s decision to place the fracking project next a school that is overwhelmingly black and Latino.
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“It’s like they said, ‘Put it where the Mexicans live, over there it’s O.K.’” said Yveth Haro, whose son Elian, 10, is a student at Bella Romero. “Well I don’t think it’s O.K.”
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Extraction Oil and Gas is the company building the project. Spokesman Brian Cain called the above narrative "absurd."
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The Bella Romero site was chosen, he said, because its particularly geography allowed access to "mitigating technologies" that will reduce the impact of fracking on the neighborhood.
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Is there open flaring too? So many health issues being so close to a drilling site!
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