Oil & Gas
Irresponsible oil and gas drilling threatens public health, safety, agriculture, land, water, and air. Millions of acres of land across the West are being disturbed by:
- pipelines and roads
- compressor stations
- transmission lines
- wastewater containment ponds
- exploding oil trains
- well pads
Oil and gas development is turning agricultural land into industrial sites, and cities into oil train blast zones. This does not have to be the case.
Oil and gas development can and must be done right, without polluting our land, air, and water or leaving landowners and taxpayers with the costs of cleanup.
WORC and its member groups in Colorado, Idaho, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming are organizing to reduce flaring and venting of natural gas, ensure safe and responsible disposal of oilfield waste, and working to make oil trains and oil pipelines safer.
News from Oil and Gas
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled October 5 that the Trump administration illegally suspended the Methane Waste Prevention Rule. The…
The Methane Waste Prevention rule is under attack. And WORC and the member groups are ready for a fight. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)…
WORC’s new fact sheet, Flaring and Venting: Waste of a Nonrenewable Resource, provides an overview of flaring and venting in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and…