Category: CBM
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Signs of Intelligence
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/21/news/wyoming/38-cbm-rule.txt">Group backs CBM water rule</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A group of landowners in Wyoming's Powder River Basin says state leaders refuse to help protect against harm from coalbed methane water, so they're looking downstream to Montana for help.<br />n<br />n"We really struggled with ourselves about whether we wanted to file suit against our own governor," said…
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Spoiled Child
Wyoming is the state who has told the Feds to keep out of it's business when it comes to wolves, they will manage them on their own and they don't care how any other state or the Feds want them to do it. They have even taken the Feds to court over this.<br />n<br />nNow…
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CBM Water
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/24/news/state/52-cbm-injection.txt">CBM water injection rejected"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Water drawn from aquifers as part of coalbed methane production does not have to be injected back into the ground, a state board decided Thursday, rejecting a push by some ranchers in eastern Montana.<br />n<br />nProposals to place new requirements on the young coalbed methane industry, which extracts natural…
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Water, Eastern Montana’s Life Blood
There is an interesting story in the Gazette about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/21/news/state/20-cbm.txt">problems of re-injecting Coal bed Methane water</a>. If you are interested in the whole CBM development it is very interesting, otherwise I'm sure its as dry as dirt. One really interesting thing jumps out at me from the article though.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Tongue River…
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Wyoming Ranchers Get The Big Picture
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…
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Humorous
Montana and many people in Montana oppose <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/01/news/state/65-cbm-letter.txt">dumping possibly contaminated water</a> into our streams and that is getting the attention of Wyoming coal bed methane (CBM) producers. The solution? The Wyoming Governor wants to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/14/news/wyoming/30-pipeline.txt">pipe the contaminated water</a> to a different river that doesn't flow into Montana. They will just contaminate Nebraska's water…
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Contaminating the Water
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/wyoming/70-cbm-water.txt">Illegal CBM water discharge alleged</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An oil and gas company in the Powder River Basin is being investigated by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality after apparently attempting to hide illegal water discharge from its coalbed methane fields.<br />n<br />nA rancher recently discovered what appeared to be a hidden water pipeline that directed…
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CBM Limits
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/01/news/state/65-cbm-letter.txt">Legislators push for stiff CBM rules</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Fifty-nine Montana legislators have sent a letter to the Board of Environmental Review asking it to toughen water-quality rules to protect rivers and streams flowing into Montana from Wyoming.<br />n<br />nThe letter urged the board to "address serious problems associated with water and coalbed methane extraction" and…
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Profit, by Any Other Name Is Still a Profit
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/10/build/state/70-cbm-costs.inc">Reports detail financial costs of CBM restrictions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Separate federal and state reports on a proposed crackdown on coalbed methane pollution say the rule could slow development, potentially costing the industry and state coffers hundreds of millions of dollars.<br />n<br />n….<br />n<br />nThe industry could lose as little as 6 percent of expected profits,…
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What States Rights
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/12/26/build/state/25-methane.inc">Feds pressure state on methane water rules</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Department of Energy hasn't officially weighed in on the issue, but the agency is preparing an analysis of Montana's proposed rules.<br />n<br />nDrilling for coalbed methane involves the release of volumes of groundwater to ease the pressure holding the natural gas in coal seams. The…