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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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Natural gas returns less likely on Island |
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 |
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Robert Barron, Nanaimo Daily News, Friday, November 06, 2009 Despite hopes earlier this decade that central Vancouver Island could soon be the centre of a vibrant natural gas industry, those expectations have faded dramatically. Mike Dawson, president of the Canadian Society for Unconventional Gas, said changing markets and new technologies over the last few years have made it difficult for energy companies to tap into the billions of cubic feet of coal bed gas, a very pure form of natural gas, in the region. |
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Partners move to oust Fowler from business |
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
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By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK, Anchorage Daily News, May 30th, 2009 DISPUTE: Both sides say they control Palmer-based drilling company.
NOTE: in the absence of recent news about coalbed methane development on Vancouver Island, we offer this update on the shenanigans with coalbed methane promoters in Alaska. You'll find other articles about Fowler Oil & Gas in early posts on this website. Whether Fowler is an anomaly, or is typical of the small operators in this speculative business, communities are well advised to ask questions, be cautious, and keep your backs to the wall. The Palmer entrepreneur who championed a new era of coal-bed methane development in the Mat-Su is locked in a vicious battle with his business partners, who have made a bid to force him out. |
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Boom in gas drilling fuels contamination concerns in Colorado |
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Saturday, 07 February 2009 |
By Josh McDaniel, The Christian Science Monitor, February 5, 2009
Some scientists and citizens want firms that extract natural gas to reveal what chemicals they’re using.
Grand Junction, Colo. - When Lisa Bracken noticed gas bubbling to the surface of Divide Creek, which runs along one side of her 60 acres in western Colorado, she suspected another gas “seep.” It had happened once before, in 2004, after faulty natural-gas drilling in the vicinity contaminated the creek with benzene and methane. |
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Coal-bed methane industry finds a home in Peace Country |
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Friday, 09 January 2009 |
Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun
Canada Energy Partners wins over Hudson's Hope and becomes a first in B.C.
Condemned in many British Columbia communities as an environmental hazard, coal-bed methane development has found a home in the Peace River Valley. |
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B.C. Communities Unite Around Coalbed Methane Action Plan |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Click here to sign on to the action plan A coalition of citizens’ groups, including CCCBM-VI, has launched a province-wide campaign around a five-point action plan they say could end the current stalemate on coalbed methane development. |
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