I’ve got lots of friends in Grand Junction. A beautiful part of the country.
A well pad, for those like myself who’d not heard the term before is a site constructed, prepared, leveled, or cleared in order to perform the activities and stage the equipment necessary to drill a natural gas exploratory or production well.
I saw on a friend’s FB that I-70 is shut down. (He lives in Parachute.)
I did some work in the area but on the south side of the interstate. Hope all are safe out there.
You can lay the blame firmly at the feet of environmental groups. They have actually organized groups for zone defense so that each one files routine appeals and lawsuits on EVERY thinning project that comes out of the National Forests. They have prevented the USFS from doing its job and have funnelled money for management to money for bureaucracy, paperwork, lawsuit defense and paying their attorneys. It is a fact.