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HB 1341 would increase the size of the state oil and gas conservation commission from seven to nine members and require that its membership include three people with undergraduate degrees in petroleum engineering or petroleum geology, representatives of local government and agriculture, a person with expertise in environmental or wildlife protection, an expert in soil conservation, and the executive directors of the state's departments of natural resources and public health and environment.
Five of the board's seven members now hail from the fossil fuel extraction industry. Critics of state government's management of natural gas drilling have said industry has run roughshod over private property owners' rights.
The bill would reduce the commission's latitude in approving projects that damage the land, water and air.
Democratic proponents said the bill is essential to slow the impacts of oil and gas extraction on large swaths of the Western Slope and eastern plains.
"People whose property is affected by mineral rights want action, and they want it now," Rep. Liane "Buffie" Mc-Fadyen, D-Pueblo West, said.