All Posts Tagged With: "coalbed methane"

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The Merits of Methane Harvesting

A proposal before the Colorado Senate seems like a no-brainer, but environmental groups are inexplicably against it. Energy analyst Randy Udall calculates just 5 megawatts of electricity generated from coal-mine methane emissions would offset more carbon than all the solar so far installed in Colorado as of 2010, at far less cost.

19Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Colorado Company Faces Off With
Wyoming Regulators

Centennial-based Ciris Energy Inc., could face more fines and civil penalties for injecting chemicals into Powder River Basin coal seams in Wyoming throughout 2010 — without proper approval, according to the state’s Oil & Gas Conservation Commission.

6Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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AT ISSUE — Produced Groundwater:
Colorado’s Ongoing Controversy

The prospect that the owners of tens of thousands of oil and gas wells would need to permit or decree plans to replace depletions, or to prove their wells withdraw nontributary groundwater, on a well-by-well basis, is daunting, to say the least.

27Oct2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Natural Gas Executives See Good Times Ahead

The reasons for optimism — a surge in production from plentiful shale and coal bed methane formations, and the expectation that climate change legislation will increase the demand for natural gas-fired power generation.

10Dec2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Rep. DeGette and Others Want Fracturing Process
for Natural Gas Regulated

Industry is balking at the idea of more regulation. “Here in Colorado we’ve just passed an extensive new regulatory regime that, in part, deals with hydraulic fracturing. Now, with the rules barely implemented, some are already clamoring for another layer of oversight,” said Doug Hock of EnCana.

5Jun2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Moffat County Funding Methane Research

Concerned about the issues surrounding coal-bed methane extraction in the San Juan, Raton and Piceance basins, the County recently approved signing a grant contract with the Colorado Water Conservation Board to survey local groundwater and aquifer conditions.

21Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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