The public conversation on a drilling plan filed by Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc., appeared to come to an end Tuesday evening after Broomfield City Council took public comments at a special council meeting. The plan now heads to the city manager’s office for further consideration.
When pressed on why Broomfield was discussing this July 27 version of the plan — which Extraction has withdrawn from consideration — City and County Manager Charles Ozaki said the council directed him to release it to keep the public informed of where the negotiations stood.
“Extraction did not like the idea that it was made public,” Ozaki said about the July 27 report, which was a result of negotiations, “but we did it anyway.”
Broomfield officials believed that significant progress was made between the May 11 and July 27 versions of the Comprehensive Development Plan from Extraction, Ozaki said, but that more conditions needed to be added.
Broomfield will not “go backwards,” he said, in regard to which version it approves.
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