Methane Gas Drilling

April 12, 2008

• Coalbed methane boom brings opportunity and some fear

  WESTON, Colo. _ Wooded gulches, rocky outcrops and views of the snowy tops of southern Colorado´s Sangre de Cristo mountains provide what looks like the perfect escape for retirees and telecommuters.
  But people who bought lots on the 16-square-kilometre North Fork Ranch about 320 kilometres south of Denver, hoping to leave behind big-city hassles, worry when [...]

April 11, 2008

• Feds Study Gas Damage

  "Editorial: Feds study gas damage; isn't that something?" - Santa Fe New Mexican:
  "It isn't as if governmental bosses have suffered a surge of concern over harvesting coal and its gaseous by-product in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and other stretches of the West. The energy bill approved by Congress in 2005 said [...]

April 10, 2008

• Does Coalbed Methane Production affect Ground Water?

  April 10, 2008
  The National Academy of Sciences committee met in Denver yesterday to began a long overdue study "to review what's known about the effects of coal-bed methane drilling on surface and groundwater and determine what needs to be studied further".
  Originally the 2005 bill said that the study should be completed within one year but [...]

September 25, 2007

• A Landowner's Oil and Gas Workshop

  Oil & Gas Accountability Project • 970-259-3353 • Durango, CO 81302 • www.ogap.org

  A Landowner’s Oil and Gas Workshop
  Monday, October 1, 2007 • 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  La Plata County Fairgrounds
  2500 Main Avenue • Durango, Colorado
  presented by the Oil & Gas Accountability Project
  and San Juan Citizens Alliance

  Protecting Your Land and the Colorado Landowner’s Protection Act

  The purpose [...]

September 10, 2007

• Oil and Gas Drilling affects Family Farm - A Legacy Destroyed!

  Linn Blancett pulls his pickup truck to a stop and lets out a weary sigh. "You see that area there," he says, pointing to a patch of land that borders a well pad pumping out gas, the surface once covered with grass now bare. "That's supposed to be reseeded." We are in the northwest corner [...]

February 23, 2007

• A Land Out of Time - Movie Trailer

  A Land Out of Time?
  The Chronicle-News reports that a new film titled "A Land Out of Time" was recently shown at the Bar NI Ranch in Stonewall and it was noted that this film is intended as a wake up call for Western States residents. This film highlights the Methane Gas Drilling boom that affects [...]