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April 17th

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Clear weather?

 

 

Jetstream out of north – could get snow

 

 

Kathy Penney and Doug Ford pitch the upside of Coal Bed Methane drilling in the Sacred Headwaters

A power point presentation by Shell Canada reps – I see where they have been in Smithers earlier in the week and the newspaper article fairly well summarizes their presentation to PR City Council too

 

‘Catastrophic road failures

Given the high snow fall and large runoff (in spring 2007) last year spent fixing roads etc (and fighting the Klabona Keepers in Court etc—but that is another story)

 

AUBC Law course (MS Word doc) note especially the discussion on ‘fraccing’ (injecting chemicals into the coal) – note too the court cases material and reasoning

 

‘No problems’ – We are the experts in drilling world wide

Wikipedia has ‘neutral’ CBM article with links etc – see their environmental impacts section and the links there in

 

Here is an earlier West Coast Env Law look at Powder River CBM: again the produced water, the density of development – but also the loss of aquifers that will take centuries to re-charge

And here is a CBM Citizen’s guide from WC Env Law –

 

Won’t happen like in Powder River area of Wyoming

Powder River is an example of worst CBM practices – Shell sees their being the only tenure holder in Klappan – that all will be avoided – produced water during drilling exploratory phases will be trucked away and treated (but see the Environmental law & UBC discussions)

 

Earth Justice ‘Powder River’ Wyoming CBM web site – note the problem is the produced water

Carelton College (Montana) CBM educational page – note the aerial photo of developed wells

 

 

There is irony here

The Smithers paper recounts how an audience member dared asked Penney & Ford ‘is it true that Shell has never extracted Coal Bed Methane in any of its international sites? And their admitting was met with jeers

 

 

Created by LG on 16/4/2008

Last updated on Thursday, April 17, 2008