Briefs JUDGE’S ORDER TO PREVENT BROOMFIELD FROM STOPPING OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS
COUNTY» BOULDER
A judge has granted Extraction Oil and Gas’ request for a temporary restraining order in response to Broomfield’s efforts to enact an emergency declaration to stop work at the company’s 18-well pad in the city until coronavirus-related emergency measures are lifted.
The decision was announced Friday evening in a post to Broomfield.org that was shared across the city’s social media channels.
The City Council, meeting by phone Tuesday as the county board of health, asked its staff to draft the declaration to suspend the flow back phase at Extraction’s 18-well Livingston Pad while the statewide stay-athome order is in place. The measure was slated for a final vote this coming Tuesday.
Three Colorado Department of Corrections staffers confirmed for coronavirus.
Two additional staffers with the Colorado Department of Corrections have tested positive for coronavirus.
One staff member works at the Sterling Correctional Facility and has not been inside the facility for several days, the CDOC said in a Friday news release. The other staffer works at the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center and has not been there for over a week.
On Thursday, the department announced that a parole officer from Sterling who doesn’t work inside a prison had tested positive. The parole officer had been operating on a reduced staffing plan to comply with social distancing.
The department is tracking people the staff members had contact with, and it will notify them about the need to quarantine, the news release said.
At this point, no inmates have tested positive for COVID-19.
Colorado man shot near Carlsbad Caverns by ranger. N.M.» CARLSBAD,
Authorities say a Colorado man was shot and killed near Carlsbad Caverns National Park after a physical altercation with a national parks ranger.
According to the Carlsbad Current-argus, Eddy County Sheriff Mark Cage said Wednesday that Charles Gage Lorentz was shot by the ranger after being stopped for erratic driving March 21.
Deputies say Lorentz exited his pickup and confronted the ranger.
Sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Matt Hutchinson said Lorentz was shot during the altercation and pronounced dead at the scene.
The ranger, whose name was not released, was not injured.