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Plans to drill under Westminster’s Standley Lake and dog park abruptly dropped

An oil and gas company that recently applied to the state to drill 14 wells that would extend underneath Standley Lake in Westminster, which provides drinking water to 300,000 people in the metro area, withdrew its application on Thursday amid rising outcry over the possibility. Highlands Natural Resources Corp. also dropped an application for 14 proposed wells under the nearby 420-acre Westminster Hills Off-Leash Dog Park, which is just north of the lake. In a statement sent to The Denver Post Thursday afternoon, Highlands CEO and chairman Robert Price said, “Through the process of communicating with various stakeholders and upon further consideration of its development plans in Jefferson County, Highlands Natural Resources has withdrawn” its applications for all 28 wells near Standley Lake. He said the withdrawals were effective for the “foreseeable future.” The decision came just hours after the Post published a story online about Highlands’ plans. Highlands’ plans to drill up to 31 wells near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, which the company submitted plans for with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Oct.

 

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