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‘Snake Oil Inc’: Colorado Agency Mistakenly Sends Email To Oil & Gas Companies Calling Them Derogatory Names

Staff members at COGCC were testing a new e-filing system when they inadvertently sent an email to hundreds of oil and gas workers.

(CBS News)

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By Shaun Boyd

November 19, 2020

DENVER (CBS4) – The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is apologizing after sending an inappropriate email ridiculing the very companies it regulates. CBS4 has learned that staff members at COGCC were testing a new e-filing system when they inadvertently sent an email to hundreds of oil and gas workers across the state.

The email called the companies they work for names that you don’t expect from people who are supposed to be fair and unbiased.

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