Category: CBM
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Quick Hits
Things I should have posted about but haven't.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/05/news/state/38-brucellosis.txt">Brucellosis is almost wiped out in the US</a> with the declaration that Texas is now Brucellosis Free. Of course there still is the problem of Brucellosis in Bison and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Area, but that is not cattle. I still think it can…
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Right Thing
Gov. Brian Schweitzer got it right <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/05/news/state/32-schweitzer.txt">here</a> at least. I know earlier he was considering accepting the deal but the pressure must have been too great. Believe me, I don't think a court case is the best thing but what else is there to do?<br />n<br />n<strong>Next to doing the right thing, the most…
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CBM Settlement
I would really like to know who come up with <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/05/news/state/22-tongue.txt">this settlement</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>It suggests relatively strict water quality standards for the Tongue River, in line with the state's 2006 rules. The Powder River would be subject to older, less-restrictive standards. And there would be minimal restrictions along two tributaries – Hanging Woman and…
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Weighing In
I see the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/20/news/state/30-epa.txt">EPA is weighing in</a> on the CBM issue here in Montana. They are telling our fair haired Governor that the proposed law, SB 407, that would allow the CBM water to be stored in unlined stock ponds might violate the Federal Clean Water Act.<br />n<br />nBoy, what a way to put…
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Destruction
It looks like the Montana House wants to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/24/news/state/23-cbm.txt">allow all the usable ground water</a> in South Eastern Montana to be pumped out of the ground to be gone forever. I really hate to tell these people but ponds and reservoirs go dry over time and then the ground water is needed to water the…
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Geography Lesson
I see the state of Wyoming is again looking at <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/22/news/wyoming/35-pipelines.txt">building a pipeline</a> to carry coalbed methane water to another water basin other than the Powder River basin. The drive to get this water out of the Powder River basin is that Montana is currently suing Wyoming about the contaminated water the CBM industry…
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Coal Bed Methane
Todays Gazette had a few pieces on CBM that I found interesting and share with you.<br />n<br />nFirst there is a news piece out of Wyoming about how the state is considering regulating the water discharged from the wells and how the industry is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/28/news/wyoming/30-cbm.txt">howling it will kill them</a>. In the industries opinion they…
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Good Letter
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/24/opinion/letters/53-methane.txt" >Letter: Regulations needed for methane industry</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>I am proud to live in a state where there are a few individuals who stand up for what is right in spite of attempted interference from the governor's office.<br />n<br />nThe hay meadows, the most productive part of our ranch, are on Spotted Horse Creek,…
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Useless Thoughts
Some things that quickly caught my eye.<br />n<br />nWhen did the Doomsday Clock, which was used to show the threat of a nuclear cataclysm, begin to be used to show <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_DOOMSDAY_CLOCK?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">environmental catastrophe</a>? I was not aware of this change, not that I'm in the loop on this one. It seems like an………interesting change.<br />n<br…
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Just A little More
I read a letter to the editor of the Billings Gazette that I had to comment on.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/10/opinion/letters/42-methane.txt" >Coalbed methane development supported</a><br />n<br />nThe letter throws out a lot of interesting numbers on why we should support Coal Bed Methane (CBM) development. The final sentence though is a little incomplete in my opinion…