Wow, got any more SJW trigger words?  The reality that rational grown-ups deal with is based in actual law (you know, as codified in federal and state statutes, not hypothetical "rights").  And in Colorado, the law says that mineral rights holders have priority such that surface right owners cannot prevent access to the subsurface.  This has been applied in case law for more than a century.

There is no such thing as "rights not to have lives...degraded".  There are, however, property rights.  And there are laws that provide the foundation for operating rules for things like oil and gas production.  This is not magic.  It may seem unexpected to home buyers who did not know Colorado law, and also know that some other entity owns the minerals under their new lot, but ignorance is no excuse for creating new "rights".