Highlights Commerce City eyes six-month moratorium Weld County remains largely unscathed Denver — Seven municipalities and one county scattered around the Denver-Julesburg Basin had passed some sort of drilling or permitting moratorium through Monday since the Colorado governor signed a law giving local governments greater control over oil and natural gas development, and that number may be higher by Tuesday. Commerce City council is set to vote on whether to impose a six-month moratorium at a meeting later Monday. The latest community to halt development was Broomfield, where the city council voted last week to stop the processing or approval of applications for use by special review or operator agreements to allow oil and gas operations in Broomfield for the next six months. “I want to believe that the oil and gas companies want to produce this […]