Parents and neighbors are concerned about how increased pollutants would impact people’s health, especially schoolchildren who play outside at Dupont Elementary School.
The Magellan-Dupont oil gas storage facility, top, is located across the street from Dupont Elementary School, bottom, and in the middle of a neighborhood in Commerce City, Colorado, as seen on Friday, June 21, 2024. Opposition to an oil and gas storage site’s expansion across the street from an elementary school near Commerce City is growing, with Adams County School District 14’s Board of Education authorizing its attorney to pursue a legal challenge.
. Twenty already are there, and those tanks store fuel delivered via a pipeline that is then trucked around Colorado to fuel vehicles. The company wants to expand, in part, to storeBut people in the neighborhood, including the school principal and residents who live next to the storage facility, were unaware of the project
“Whether the proposed project is ultimately approved or denied, ONEOK intends to be a good neighbor to the school and surrounding community for years to come,” she said. “We have already reached out to the school district, and it is our genuine hope that — over time — we can demonstrate ONEOK’s commitment to engaging meaningfully with the communities in which we operate.
The Center for Biological Diversity will join the parents’ group, Cultivando and the school district in resisting the project, Salazar said.Suncor’s Commerce City refinery violated Clean Air Act more than 9,000 times over last 5 years, new lawsuit alleges
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