that is a very misleading statement, they have never been denied for anything. if anything were to happen it would be on the county not on the company, so not expecting anything out of the ordinary! moving forward
In order to be approved or denied there would have to be an amended CUP filed and in order to file an amended CUP there would have to be a final mandate on the new extraction regulations for the county
they have not approved or denied any extraction license because they have not completed the pending regulation that will dictate what and how facilities should be handled
a little research into how all of this works would probably be in order