Industry representatives Director Josh Fox has documented the environmental effects of new drilling methods, including flammable tap water, across 24 states in his new film "Gasland."
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State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms is a hearing examiner and cannot comment on the drilling permit application.
"People are saying 'we thought we bought our house in suburbia, or at least exurbia, and now someone is drilling an oil well here, " said Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director Matt Lepore.
At the end of June, President Obama announced that Richard Lazarus would serve as executive director of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.