All the proponents of coal bed metahnae (CBM) development keep telling us that the water they discharge is all fine and dandy and we as ranchers should quit complianing and let this development continue like it has in Wyoming. Now I see Wyoming ranchers are starting to see the problems of this CBM water.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/16/news/wyoming/41-methane-water.txt">Ranchers seeks limits on methane water</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Some ranchers and landowners complain that they have lost fields and trees because of poor quality groundwater pumped to the surface by the wells in order to release the methane from coal seams.<br />n<br />n"The vast majority of water is flushed down draws and run down ephemeral drainages. It destroys the land," Marge West, a Campbell County rancher, said. "We had 80 acres of prime hay meadow destroyed, and we lost 200 cottonwood trees."</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo I guess no matter what the CBM proponents say, we see the real truth here. Hopefully these Wyoming ranchers can rein in this uncontrolled discharge of water that hurts us all.<br />n<br />n<b>Details create the big picture. Sanford I. Weill</b>