"Committee recommends version that makes developers meet extensive requirements
11/13/2008 - 11/14/08
When Santa Fe County — spooked by the specter of impending oil and gas development — first began writing new regulations to govern the industry, the county's public information officer said the county would probably get sued no matter what type of ordinance it developed.
The no-drill attitude of many of the residents of Santa Fe County combined with the must-drill track record of the energy industry, Stephen Ulibarri reasoned in the fall of 2007, was bound to result in a situation in which neither party could be satisfied and one would legally challenge whatever the county approved.
The county Development Review Committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that the County Commission approve the most recent version of the evolving oil and gas ordinance being developed by contract planners and attorneys. By Ulibarri's logic, that puts Santa Fe County one step closer to a lawsuit.
But land-use attorney Robert Freilich, one of the primary authors of the proposed regulations, assured the committee Thursday that the ordinance he and his team had written was legally defensible. "We think there is very little basis for a facial attack on this ordinance," Freilich said." More>>>>
The no-drill attitude of many of the residents of Santa Fe County combined with the must-drill track record of the energy industry, Stephen Ulibarri reasoned in the fall of 2007, was bound to result in a situation in which neither party could be satisfied and one would legally challenge whatever the county approved.
The county Development Review Committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that the County Commission approve the most recent version of the evolving oil and gas ordinance being developed by contract planners and attorneys. By Ulibarri's logic, that puts Santa Fe County one step closer to a lawsuit.
But land-use attorney Robert Freilich, one of the primary authors of the proposed regulations, assured the committee Thursday that the ordinance he and his team had written was legally defensible. "We think there is very little basis for a facial attack on this ordinance," Freilich said." More>>>>
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