Greeley-Evans Weld County School District 6 (also called Greeley-Evans School District 6) is a school district headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, United States.
The following schools are operated by or through Greeley-Evans School District 6:[1] The following schools teach kindergarten through eighth grade: Extraction Oil and Gas has been operating a fracking platform of 24 wells within 700 feet from the playground of the Bella Romero 4-8 Academy at 1400 East 20th Street east of the city limits of Greeley.
The controversial business activity has also been featured in stories from The New York Times, Mother Jones, and others.
[2] In June 2020, a petition was submitted to shut down the fracking platform.
[3] Children and teachers were exposed to benzene levels from the fracking operations almost seven times higher than the lifetime safe exposure level for benzene by the World Health Organization.