Ken Wonstolen Quotations

Here you have groups representing more landowners than the other groups combined and they support the bill, so there must be the right balance still in this bill.

I think we certainly have a workable bill at this point.

We can't be put in a position where we owe some kind of blue sky (undefined) damages related to the change of the area. Not to say we're not sympathetic. If we are going to have oil and gas development, it has to happen where the gas is.

We're willing to pay the surface owner to exercise our existing property to right to the reasonable use of the surface to access the minerals. That's a property right we own, that we paid for, acquired.

We would hope that we would get some consideration of these ideas.

We liked the way they've designed this (tax) so that it works evenly across the state.

We thought the Water Quality Control division ... indicated a willingness to examine the details of the (permitting) program, and that means (we have) an opportunity to work with them. We think we ought to explore those (details) before going to court.

We didn't feel there was adequate consideration of cost.

You can't drill a well when you don't know what the economics will be.

COGA and its members are committed to protecting the quality of Colorado's water resources.

There's a legitimate property right on both sides, but we don't want to tilt the balance so far that we lose the mineral right. I don't think this nation is going to allow one of the few bright spots of growth in gas production to go by the wayside for that.

This is a very complicated issue. I hate to see it reduced to 30-second sound bites.

I'm having a hard time following all the projects.