[BOBTHENAILER]

Currently, there are thousands of wells in Wyoming. Environmental/EPA opposition is increasing daily and has been used to limit the number of wells drilled in Montana portion of the Powder River Basin. Please give support to Mike Taylor's Senate campaign against Max Baucus for Montana's Senate seat. Taylor supports CBM development, Baucus does not.

[Migraine]

This is an interesting and educational issue. Thanks for posting it.

[aculeus]

Pre WWII big northern cities like NYC got all their gas from coal. The gas was "baked" out of the coal. The leftover product, coke, was then marketed to home owners as fuel, Koppers Koke being the leading brand name.

The German Uboat attacks on the East Coast led to the construction of the Big Inch pipeline used to transport petroleum products (or possibly crude) during the war. The pipeline was converted to gas after the war and coal gas and Koppers Koke disappeared.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Big National Security Energy Ping. Current estimates (conservative) are that there is enough gas in the Powder River Basin coals to power California for twenty to thirty years.

During the senate debate on the Energy Bill, almost all the opponents to ANWR, would utter the same refrain: "We're not opposed to drilling, we just don't want to see it in this 'Pristine' wilderness area. Well, it seems their enviro buddies don't want in the Powder either. Currently stalled are thousands of well permits from a federal lawsuit by, you guessed it, Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council and Biodiversity Associates.

Please note the "footprint" taken up in the picture of your average wellhead. Each well is capable of producing between 150,000 to 500,000 cubic feet of gas per day. An average home uses about 150,000 cubic feet of gas per year for heating, cooling and electricity.

[another cricket]

deposits thousands of gallons of water - drinkable but a little too salty for irrigation - onto the bone dry high prairie.

A small distillation plant would solve this problem wouldn't it? You could then used the water for irrigation if you wished.

a.cricket

[Grampa Dave]

Great find Bob!

These two excerpts say all we need to know about the enviral nazis and their intentions to keep us energy dependent on Opecker Oil.

A report by the fedeal Energy Information Administration on the potential for gas production here and elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain region refers to the area as a possible "Persian Gulf for natural gas," noting its resources "are more that adequate to meet the expected increase in (U.S.) demand."

That is the good news, now for the Enviral Nazis Slant, which is bad news for Americans:

Conservationists say many of the 8,000 producing wells here have already scarred the terrain, lowered the water table and changed the character of the land. They charge the water's salt content eventually impairs or destroys the land's already limited ability to support agriculture. And they fear that the new roads and water disposal required to more than quintuple the number of producing wells to a planned 51,000 will compound the damage."

More data re the link between the Enviral Nazis and their buddies the Opecker Princes. Opec does not want anything to decrease our dependence on Opecker Oil, be it natural gas or this gas. So their buddies, the Enviral Nazis will fight this on every front.

[RightWhale]

"Impacts to the lanscape are just astounding," says Jill Morrison

There is hardly a more pleasant sight in nature than seeing, upon rounding a curve along the highway in barren, rocky terrain, a clean, well-maintained, productive natural-gas well-head.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Wyoming bump!!

[Carry_Okie]

So while the sprawling field here has the potential to produce prodigious amounts of gas, it takes thousands of wells to do it, and each one requires road access and deposits thousands of gallons of water - drinkable but a little too salty for irrigation - onto the bone dry high prairie.

And there it is folks, the RICOnut interest in controlling roads and water. It's a bunch of CWAP!

[aruanan]

Companies had produced coa-bed methane from gas-rich coal seams in Alabama and Colorado for years before production caught on here.

For info on both where the methane gas and coal come from look HERE.

[mia]

In the Southern Tier of New York State there are hundreds, if not thousands, of capped off gas wells. My son used to paint them during the summer while he was in college. He and two other fella's were hired by a local company to paint as many as they could each day for the entire summer. They never were able to paint them all. There were other companies that owned gas wells in the region as well.

Our gas (Western New York) is piped from Tenessee. I have no idea why gas from our state is unavailable for comsumption.

[FReethesheeples]

Baucus is a dangerous demagogue & mindless troglodite.

It is simply unreasonable ignorance, earth worship (as in a pagan Gaia religion), & Al-Gorian superstition, or obsequious, fawning obeisance to the radical marxist enviro-wackos that would make Baucus take sucha scientifically reactionary, ignorant and backward psotion against Coal Bed Methane exploration and development.

These are generally the very same enviro-wackos whose dangerously irresponsible oppostion to prudent forest thinning has resulted in the record runaway fires in the West the last two summers & the lsoos of many millions of dolars of property!

[FReethesheeples]

We did CBM exploration drilling in the Powder River Basin early on, before it was an economic success. thats where my coments on the cleanliness of the produced water came from. In spite of such measurable cleanlisnes, we were subject to some sub-optimal regualtions, which precluded simply putting the clean water on the land.

(We wouldn't want to upset the ecosystem by replacing a few hundred acres sagebrush of the tens of millions of acres of existing sagebrush with something which could use more water and make the Wyoming wasteland greener!)

(Pioneers in exploaratin as in other firelds usually, or most often, end up with arrows in their extreme lower posteriors and we were no exception. Later drilling activity yeilded rewards for less risk.)

While my company no longer has any financial vested interest in Wyoming, (we sold our Powder River and other production from several horizons in Wyoming and several other states) many kudos for your contributions, comments, post and article!We are battling a vast amount of willful ignorance and a sinister leftist and extremist political agenda.