🚨 Adams County Action on Bitcoin Flare Mining

Adams County has taken it upon themselves to pursue a path to regulate the use of stranded gas to power bitcoin mining operations at rural well pad locations across the county.

The County staff have drafted some guidelines within their rule making process, along with strangely specific terminology, to claim that the use of natural gas in generators on oil and gas well pads is not a known or permitted use, and further utilized their rule making toolbox to state that this particular use is prohibited.

If you would like to comment on this, attend the Board County Commissioners Meeting meeting on September 27th (4430 S Adams County Pkwy, Brighton, CO 80601) and provide public comment. Any and all public comment relating to this issue is welcome. The BOCC generally has one or two public comments per meeting. Considering they are elected officials, they are generally sensitive to feedback from the community.

If you plan to make a public comment, you’ll need to arrive at the breezeway to the meeting room between 8:30 and 8:45. It’s early, but worth it! You need to sign-in on a paper form that is typically on a table in the entrance breezeway to the meeting room. They generally pull that sign-in sheet at 9AM sharp. The actual meeting starts at 9:30AM, and the public comment is typically done by 10AM. You do not need to stay past the public comment, but it is worth sticking around to see if the commissioners respond to public comments.

Here are the current "facts" that the Adams County staff have put together.

The actual discussion of the issue will take place at 2:25pm during the study session, but no public comment is allowed during that meeting. There will be another meeting at some point in the future where the commission takes a final vote on the changes, and we'll keep the community aware of that if & when it gets scheduled.

If you cannot attend, but still wish to make a public comment, you can do so electronically. Keep in mind that public comments submitted electronically from outside the county will be flagged as such. In-person comment is always more effective than remote feedback.