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Citizens Concerned about Coalbed Methane - Vancouver Island |
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
For these reasons - potential impacts on watersheds, salmon, agriculture, tourism, resettlement desirability and land values - the consequences of coalbed methane development on the island need to be fully understood before it is allowed to proceed.
The east coast of Vancouver Island from Campbell River to south of Nanaimo sits on top of two sizable coalfields - the Comox Coalfield and the Nanaimo Coalfield. Where there's coal, there is very likely to be coalbed methane. And the methane can be produced as an economic product, put into pipelines and sold as natural gas. The east coast of Vancouver Island is also a series of watersheds. Each watershed is a complex interplay of rain and snow, groundwater, aquifers, streams and rivers. For most, the complexity is still largely unknown. What is known, however, is that many of the watersheds are stressed, or may soon be. |
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Apache deal marks another exit for BP in Canada |
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 |
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By Scott Haggett and Jeffrey Jones, Reuters, July 20, 2010 * Western Canada gas assets sell for $3.25 billion * BP's 2nd exit from Canadian gas business * Oil sands, Arctic acreage, NGLs not part of deal * Affects 520 jobs at BP (In U.S. dollars unless noted) BP is also handing over its planned Mist Mountain coal bed methane development. CALGARY, Alberta, July 20 (Reuters) - BP Plc (BP.L) is selling its natural gas business in Western Canada to Apache Corp (APA.N) as part of a $7 billion deal to raise funds for hefty Gulf of Mexico oil spill costs, marking an end for what was once the country's dominant gas producer. |
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BP drilling of test methane well raises protest in Fernie |
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
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By Kelly Cryderman, Calgary Herald, July 14, 2010 Fernie-area residents are taking to the streets Wednesday to protest BP’s drilling of a test coal bed methane well leading to a potentially larger project they say could ruin the natural landscape and wildlife corridor. |
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Work begins at BP coal bed methane site near Sparwood |
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
by Rebecca Edwards, Fernie Free Press, June 17, 2010
Work has begun on preparing Teck Coal-owned land to become a well pad for exploration coal bed methane drilling by BP later this month. |
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Embattled BP’s test well work on East Kootenay gas project draws fire |
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
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Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, June 16, 2010 VANCOUVER — Energy giant BP's Canadian subsidiary is butting into a new environmental controversy over a proposed East Kootenay coalbed methane project while its Deepwater Horizon well continues to spew oil into the Gulf of Mexico. 
A photo posted on Wildsight.ca shows an access road into BP's Mist Mountain coalbed methane exploratory drilling project in early June, 2010. The site is approximately 22km northeast of Fernie, B.C., and has drawn criticism from some locals who fear that BP may not know how to drill safely in the Rockies. (Photograph by: Ryland Nelson, wildsight.ca) | |
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Judge rules coal bed methane wastewater ponds unconstitutional |
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Sunday, 02 May 2010 |
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News Release, Northern Plains Resource Council, April 30, 2010 State District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock of Helena, Mont., this week affirmed that dumping wastewater from coal bed methane development into evaporation pits violates the Montana Constitution. He said such “water impoundments” are not a beneficial use of the billions of gallons of water that are brought to the surface and dumped into pits or into rivers and streams, calling such practices “a waste of one of Montana’s natural resources.” |
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