Coal Links
BillingsGazette.com - Coal coming on: Demand likely to increase in 2005
BillingsGazette.com - Otter Creek still attracting interest: Core sampling near Ashland gives useful facts

Coal Bed Methane Issues
(CBM, Coalbed Natural Gas, Coalbed Methane, Natural Gas in Coal, NGC, Coalbed Methane Gas)

Coalbed Methane Maps
U.S. Map with significant methane highlighted.
North American Coalbed Methane Resource Map
USGS - Powder River Basin Federal Surface versus Coal Ownership maps
A Digital Database of Coal Ownership Status
Hart's E&Pnet - Global Coal Distribution Map
Historical occurrences and exploration targets for coalbed methane in Wyoming
Map of Bozeman Pass Area of Montana
USGS - National Assessment of Oil and Gas Fact Sheet Coal-Bed Gas Resources of the Rocky Mountain Region (PDF)
British Columbia Maps
Coalfields and coalbed methane potential in British Columbia (PDF)
WSGS - Revised coalbed methane maps for the Powder River Basin - November 12, 2003
WSGS - Coalbed Methane Maps of the Powder River Basin

CBM Links
Encarta - Definition of Natural Gas
EPA - Coalbed Methane Outreach Program
Office of Fossil Energy - Geologic Sequestration Research
USGS - Coalbed Methane Research
Oil & Gas Accountability Project
Coal Bed Methane Frequently Asked Questions
A Novices Introduction to Coal Bed Methane
The Basics of Salinity and Sodicity Effects on Soil Physical Properties
Transportation in the Post-Petroleum World - Natural Gas Abundance
Sierra Club - Coalbed Methane Search
Rainforest Action Network - Drilling to the Ends of the Earth - The Case Against New Fossil Fuel Exploration- The Gas Gamble

United States Coalbed Methane
Northern Plains Resource Council
Montana Department of Environmental Quality Coal Bed Methane Web Site
Powder River Basin Resource Council's Coalbed Methane Website
PowderRiverBasin.org - Coalbed Methane Monitor - Winter 2002/2003
USGS - Coalbed Methane Powder River Basin- Montana/Wyoming
Coalbed Methane (CBM) Has a Large Potential for Development in Montana
Montana Environmental Information Center -Methane Meets Montana
Powder River Basin Coalbed Methane Project Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology
Alaska Center for the Environment
Save the Grand Mesa
DEQ - CBM in Wyoming
Greater Yellowstone Coalition - The Oil and Gas Industry’s Next Target: The Upper Green River Basin in Northwest Wyoming
CoalBed Methane Coordination Coalition (Wyoming) Includes CBM Well Map
USGS - Impacts Of Coalbed Methane Development In The Powder River Basin, Wyoming - 2001
Western Slope Environmental Resource Council - Colorado
Kansas Energy Information Network - Kansas Coalbed Methane
AMRivers.org - Powder River among Nation's Most Endangered
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance - Oil and Gas Campaign
Wyoming Outdoor Council - Winter 2002 - Coalbed Methane Update
BioGems - Yellowstone / Greater Rockies - Fast Facts
NRDC.org - Rocky Mountain Guru
"Seeing these coalbed methane knights and dukes and vandals move in here, I've seen how powerless the place is," Marston says. "What person living in suburban New Jersey or Denver or L.A. is worried about someone planting a hundred thousand acres of gas wells and flaring them all night and setting up compressor stations and destroying their serenity and landscapes? But that's what we're up against."
Montana Board of Oil & Gas Conservation
Bighorncenter.org - Coal-Bed Methane Drilling - Changing the mission of the COGCC (PDF file)
American Fisheries Society - Coalbed Methane Comments
Coalbed Methane (CBM) in Montana: Problems and Solutions (PDF)
American Wildlands - Science based conservation for the Northern Rockies
Wyoming CBM Clearinghouse
Earth Justice - Montana Coal-Bed Methane Leasing
Montana BLM - Miles City Coal Bed Natural Gas Information Page
Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) - Coalbed Methane Information
East of Huajatolla Citizens Alliance
Montana Conservation Voters - Coalbed Methane Development (PDF)
West Coast Environmental Law - A bird’s eye view of coalbed methane in the Powder River Basin
Honor the Earth - Fires in Our Hearts: Fires in the Coalfields
CBM Watch - A Citizens Resource to Coalbed Methane
GreaterYellowstone.com - Bozeman Pass - Coalbed Methane Development Chess Game Continues
USGS - CBM potential in the Appalachian states of Pennsylvania,West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Oklahoma Geological Survey - Coal and Coalbed Methane (Includes Maps)
Biodiversity Conservation Alliance
Actionnetwork.org - Take Action! State BUYBACK of all coal bed methane leases (Alaska)
East of Huajatolla Citizens Alliance - CBM Gas

Canada and Coalbed Methane
West Coast Environmental Law - Coalbed Methane: What Is It? What Could It Mean For BC? (PDF file)
West Coast Environmental Law - COALBED METHANE: A CITIZEN’S GUIDE (PDF)
Government of Alberta - Energy - Natural Gas in Coal (NGC) / Coalbed Methane
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board - Coalbed Methane

Coalbed Methane and International Locations
Development and implementation of a coal fire monitoring and fighting system in China (PDF)
450 billion cubic mt methane reserves found - June 16, 2003
Coal India Limited (CIL) has found nine new reserves of coal bed methane gas of around 450 billion cubic metres across seven states.
Far East Energy Reports Excellent Test Results on First China CBM Well - December 4, 2003
Latest estimates show China possesses 31.46 trillion cu m of CBM
EPA - Coalbed Methane Outreach Program - International Activities
India - The Second Round of Coalbed Methane Exploration - Includes Maps
Coal Seam Gas in New Zealand - A Proposed Legislative Framework for the Management and Allocation of Rights - August 2003
Status of coal-bed methane in India - TERI Newswire VII(14), 16-31 July 2001

Legal Resources for Coalbed Methane
Rhine, Ernest, & Vargo Law Firm - Ownership of Coalbed Methane
Earth Justice - Because the earth needs a good lawyer - Methane Search
West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation - BC's legal champion for the environment.

Coal Bed Methane In the News
HighCountryNews.org - Latest Coalbed Methane News
Peaks to Prairies - Mining News
Montana forum.com - Fossil Fuels
Time.com - The War Over the West
"When I bought this place, you could ride up on the ridge and see nothing," says Dube. "Now you see trucks, pipelines, compressor stations.
It's funny, I tell people now I know what the Indians felt like when they saw the wagon trains coming."
Time Archive - American Notes DISASTERS - June 15, 1987
"The folks in Rawhide Village, a subdivision near Gillette, Wyo., figured something was amiss back in February
when they found they could set fire to cracks in the street."
Wyoming Outdoor Council - Frontline - Coalbed Methane: Gas Boom, Environmental Bust - 1999
Range Magazine - Waterworld - Fall 2000
High Country News - How well do you know your wells? - September 25, 2000
WSGS - December 14, 2000 New Reports Released On Subsidence In Coalbed Methane Areas
Coalbed methane: Montana watches as Wyoming copes - February 18, 2001
Principal issues identified for coalbed methane study - May 9, 2001
Audubon Magazine - Powder Keg - 2002
PBS.org - Now with Bill Moyers - Methane Drilling - March 8, 2002
Friends of the Earth - Deputy Secretary of the Interior Commits Flagrant Ethics Violations - May 25, 2002
J. Steven Griles Caught Lobbying EPA on Behalf of Former Clients, Flouting Formal Recusal Agreements
The Methane of Their Existence - June 2002
Geotimes - Coalbed Methane: The Future of U.S. Natural Gas? - What's in a name? - November 2002
Not many people realize that coalbed methane is simply one form of natural gas. Now that coalbed methane is becoming more important in discussions of U.S. energy production, many people are calling for a name change to make the resource more recognizable to the public. During a September meeting in West Virginia of industry and government representatives to discuss the growing demand for natural gas, West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise (D) suggested changing the fuel source's name to something more familiar. "Because this [fuel source] is now an important part of the total U.S. energy mix, the industry needs to move away from using its confusing short-hand term, 'coalbed methane.' The public understands the term 'natural gas' because they use it every day. That is why we are calling this resource 'natural gas' and identifying its source rock as coal seams," Wise said.
MotherJones.com - A Rural Flare-Up - November 4, 2002
MSNBC - U.S. Politics: Is the fix in? Opportunities to break free of foreign oil wasted, critics contend - November 13, 2002
Ranchers Bristle as Gas Wells Loom on the Range - December 29, 2002
"Ranchers have never truly thought much of tree-hugging environmentalists," said John Dewey, 76, who owns a small cattle ranch outside Sheridan, Wyo. "But with these methane boys on our land, we are starting to see these environmentalists as conservationists who want to help us preserve land for our kids."
Trash'N The Woods -Ranchers take on the oil and gas industry - Dec. 31, 2002
Citizen Review Online - Guest Opinion Coalbed decision good for feds, bad for Montana - May 2003
Geotimes.org - Coal Science - July 2003
Interest in coal bed methane is widespread and exploratory drilling is occurring in countries around the world, from Australia to Ukraine. The United States is the leading producer of CBM, where it accounts for almost 10 percent of domestic natural gas production. The San Juan and Warrior basins continue to be the largest producers in this country, but exploration and production from low-rank coal in the Powder River Basin has increased rapidly and will continue to grow. New exploratory CBM drilling has been proceeding in the Paleocene/Eocene Wilcox Group coals along the Gulf Coast, and production has started in the Upper Cretaceous Olmas coals of South Texas. In addition, Pennsylvanian coals from the Illinois and Appalachian Basins and coals in Oklahoma and Arizona continue to be targeted for new CBM exploration.
Power Politics: Linking Congress, Campaign Contributions and Energy Policy - August 12, 2003
Bush Wages War on Parks, Wilderness - August 17, 2003
Well failures blamed on coalbed methane development - Sept. 22, 2003
Social Investors Recommend Best Practice for Coalbed Methane Extraction - October 07, 2003
MSU researchers look for coalbed methane-compatible forages October 16, 2003
Wyoming Game and Fish - Sage Grouse and WNV Fact Sheet (current as of October 24, 2003)
Is there a link between West Nile Virus and coal-bed methane development?
Supreme Court refuses to hear methane case - October 28, 2003
Billings Gazette - NPRC takes methane fears to BLM - October 30, 2003
Scientist warns of adverse effects of excess CBM water - October 31, 2003
BCA files suit to protect Red Desert Grouse from CBM - November 2003
Helenair.com - Scientist predicts 20-30 species lost due to coal-bed methane. - November 6, 2003
Landowner irked by lack of info on methane wells. - November 6, 2003
House Approves Energy Bill; Support For Senate Filibuster Murky 11/18/03
Energy bill could boost coal bed methane, tire burning efforts - November 19, 2003
AGIWEB.org - Final Energy Bill Passes House, Close to Senate Approval 11-20-03
Rocky Mountain News - Waking Roan's sleeping giant - Nov. 21, 2003
National Congress of American Indians asks Senate to kill energy bill. - November 21, 2003
Indigenous Environmental Network - Energy Bill Filibuster Sustained, But the Fight Could Resume in January - November 26, 2003
Washington Post - Better Energy Legislation - Saturday, November 29, 2003
St. Mary to Proceed with Coalbed Methane Project - December 1, 2003
"St. Mary Land & Exploration Company today announced that it will proceed with the development of coalbed methane reserves in the Hanging Woman Basin, located in the northern part of the Powder River Basin along the Montana-Wyoming border."
MSNBC - American Indians debate energy bill Corporate welfare or economic gain - December 2, 2003
Forbes.com - Economists challenge Bush Western land policies -Reuters, 12.03.03
Energy bill is omnicide, slow death for Indian people Voices from the earth, filibuster. - December 03, 2003
The Prairie Star - Water quality, quantity is concern in CBM development - December 5, 2003
Yale Daily News - December 5, 2003 Bush's energy bill would have compounded market failures.
"The U.S. Senate's failure to pass the energy bill supported by the Bush administration last week was a temporary victory for the environment and for common sense. Now one can only hope that the bill's opponents manage to prevent its passage until the nation elects a new president next November."
Yale Daily News - December 5, 2003 Democrats' filibustering is not egregious
Frontiersman - Progress? Or industrial abuse? - 12/5/03
Great Falls Tribune Online - Methane quandary Advocates hail resource as an economic boon; foes fear impact on water supply - 12/08/03
Montanaforum.com - Wyoming county faces new costs from coalbed methane drilling. - December 10, 2003
Rolling Stone Magazine - December 11, 2003 - Crimes Against Nature
MSNBC - Energy bill delay may deflate wind power - December 14, 2003
Casper Star Tribune - BLM approves 3-D seismic map project - December 19, 2003
"We think that this is a sterling example of how the BLM in Wyoming is using the heaviest-impact technology in the most sensitive of landscapes," Molvar said in a phone interview. "We asked the BLM to keep the heavy equipment off of these sensitive lands by using lower-impact alternatives, but the BLM approved the maximum-impact project and never gave our proposal serious consideration," he said. "Now, instead of having an exploration project that reduces impacts and protects the most sensitive 5 percent of the project area, one of the Red Desert's wildest remaining landscapes will be laid to waste," Molvar said. "Even though the project area has increased substantially in size since it was originally shown to the public, the BLM chose to issue its decision without public input on its environmental assessment," Molvar said. "This is a clear violation of federal law, which guarantees opportunities for public participation."
The Star Tribune - Couple to get new water well. - December 24, 2003
Frontiersman - Drilling opposition spouts lies and exaggerations
"To begin with the only way man can live on earth is to "exploit" the resources that are available. In order to have cars, computers, food, steel buildings, glasses, artificial hearts, jet airplanes, color TVs and the arts, we must use the guts of the earth. We have to mine it, grow food on it, pull oil from it and manage waste on it. If we stop any of these acts, we will starve. Therefore doing these things is a good thing, a thing to be pleased about, an act of production. The use of the earth is a morally wonderful thing."
Star-Tribune - Alaskans seek advise on CBM - December 27, 2003
Billings Gazette - Ready, set... Montana takes measured approach to coalbed exploration - January 4, 2004
BillingsGazette.com - Conservationists, tribes urge caution in coalbed methane development - January 5, 2004
Billings Gazette -Coalbed methane: The players - January 6, 2004
Billings Gazette - Coalbed methane: The lawsuits - January 6, 2004
Billings Gazette - Following busy year, Wyoming tries to cope with coalbed growing pains - January 7,2004
ENN.com - Environmentalists cry foul on Bush mining proposal Thursday, January 08, 2004
Billings Gazette - Split estate, divided views: coalbed methane creates a stir above ground and below. - January 8, 2004
Billings Gazette - New way with water: WWII-era science could help out coalbed methane industry. - January 9, 2004
BillingsGazzette.com - Guest Opinion: Methane industry should listen to farmers. - January 17, 2004
If Caskey and his colleagues want a green light for methane development in Montana, then I have some pretty simple advice: Stop focusing on what you can get away with, and start listening to the folks out here on the ground with legitimate concerns about your development practices. The laws that protect our land and water aren't paper formalities - they're essential to ensuring southeastern Montana's agricultural economy survives the methane boom.
Hundreds of Elk Dying Mysteriously - February 26, 2004
(KSL News) -- Experts in Wyoming are baffled by the mysterious deaths of large numbers of elk. In the last few days at least 275 elk have died in an area roughly two miles by ten miles in ranchland near Rawlins (Wyoming). The elk appear to suffer a paralysis affecting their legs. They can't get up and usually live for a few days before dying. Experts have eliminated all the usual elk diseases and known environmental hazards. They say they've never heard of a case like this one. The leading theory is that the elk are being poisoned by something in the environment. The area is somewhat industrialized with oil & gas wells and Coalbed Methane development. Other species of wildlife, including antelope, seem to be unaffected.
DenverPost.com - Unexplained elk deaths in Wyoming leave wildlife officials puzzled - Friday, February 27, 2004
In the last three weeks, about 275 elk, mostly breeding-age cows in prime condition, have been found either dead or paralyzed in a 3-square-mile area just north of the Colorado border. State wildlife veterinarians have already ruled out diseases such as chronic wasting disease, worms or paralyzing bacteria sometimes carried by ticks. Instead, they are focusing on natural or man-made toxins as the most likely cause of the die-off. "There's a railroad, a coal- bed methane project and oil and gas wells in the area," Reed said.
High Country News - Oil and gas drilling could oust elk — and Boy Scouts (Subscription Required)
Plans for oil, gas and coalbed methane development in northern New Mexico’s Valle Vidal have aroused the opposition of environmentalists, ranchers, hunters, and the Boy Scouts
Groups seek to add West Nile virus concerns to coalbed methane suit - March 2, 2004
Conservation groups challenging the Bureau of Land Management's plan to manage coalbed methane development in the Powder River Basin are seeking to add concerns about the West Nile virus to their lawsuit. The groups say ponds that store groundwater discharged by drilling for the gas provide prime breeding habitat for mosquitoes, which are the primary carriers of West Nile virus. There is speculation that the concentration of infected birds in Campbell County is linked to the prevalence of coalbed methane drilling there and the volumes of groundwater thereby brought to the surface. A larger concern is the potential problem that West Nile virus poses for human health. "This is a disease that kills people, too,'' Molvar said. "The West Nile virus issue provides a very direct and a very convincing link that shows that coalbed methane development has major impacts on the health not only of sage grouse but humans as well.''
DenverPost.com - Delta cattle deaths breed suspicion - March 08, 2004
Top U.S. Interior Department Official Cleared of Some Ethical Allegations. - March 18, 2004
A top Interior Department official with ties to oil and gas companies has been cleared of several allegations of ethical violations, but federal investigators didn't rule definitively on questions about his involvement with coalbed methane development in Montana and Wyoming. Kristen Sykes, of Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that helped prompt the investigation, said the report details enough conflicts that Griles should be dismissed. "The inspector general's report is damning," she said. "It uncovers regular and consistent breaches of Griles' ethics agreements and, more importantly, blatant violations of the public's trust."
ENN.com - New Mexico grasslands become battleground in debate over drilling on public property. - March 19, 2004
CNN.com - Mysterious Wyoming Elk Deaths Solved. - March 22, 2004
Stillwater County residents get CBM primer. - March 22, 2004
Stillwater County rancher Mike Studiner wishes he knew three months ago what he knows today. Two months ago, he renewed an oil and gas lease on his land with little thought to coalbed methane development. On Sunday, at an information meeting in Absarokee, he got an earful of what he hadn't considered. Art Hayes, the president of the Tongue River Water Association, told attendees what they could expect should drilling begin in Stillwater County - including weeds, water rights, leaking impoundment ponds and noisy compressor stations. "I'd like to see them develop it in a very orderly manner," he said, where a given amount of water is withdrawn, treated and used before more water is withdrawn. He also suggested enhancing the water with the very same bacteria that create methane in the first place, then reinjecting the water back underground with the purpose of making more methane.
Feds swat at West Nile in court. - March 23, 2004
The federal government is taking a legal swat at the mosquito-transmitted West Nile Virus. But so far coalbed methane gas drillers are not required to take any swats in the fields where they're constructing hundreds of new ponds -- potential breeding pads for mosquitoes.
Seminar to focus on coal's future in Southeastern Illinois.
Ways and means of utilizing the 43 billion tons of coal reserves in the Route 1 Corridor will be the theme of the 2004 Coal Initiative Seminar, to be held Thursday, April 15, 9 a.m. at Wabash Valley College. The event is sponsored by the Route One Association. Speakers will include John Mead, director of the Coal Research Center at Southern Illinois University; Tom Moore, head of coal section, Illinois State Geological Survey; and Bill Hoback, chief of Office of Coal Development, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Development (DCEO). Subjects to be covered include FutureGen -- a Sequestration and Hydrogen Research initiative -- which involves the planned construction of a 275-megawatt prototype plant "that will serve as a large scale engineering laboratory for testing new clean power, carbon capture and coal-to-hydrogen technologies."
Study: CBM damaging Powder River. - April 8, 2004
MontanaForum.com - Methane development to hug state line. - April 8, 2004
CasperStarTribune.net - Attorney: Easements create state 'windfall'. - April 9, 2004
Group to sponsor CBM forum in Roberts
The Carbon County Resource Council will sponsor a panel discussion on coalbed methane development at 7:30 p.m. April 22 at the Roberts School cafeteria. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management forecasts in its environmental impact statement on coalbed methane drilling that Carbon County could have as many as 400 methane wells. Panelists will include Art Hayes Jr., a Tongue River rancher and president of the Tongue River Water Users' Association, who will speak about his experiences with methane drilling in the area; Clint McRae, a Rosebud Creek rancher, who will discuss laws that govern methane development on private land; and John Wheaton, a research hydrogeologist with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, who will discuss the development process and impacts to groundwater resources. For more information, contact Kendall Van Dyk at (406)248-1154.
"Land Conservation for Conservatives": Protecting America's Great Places
Prominent land protection advocates from around the United States will be featured speakers at the "Land Conservation for Conservatives" conference to be held in Albuquerque on May 22. The conference is being produced by REP America, the national grassroots organization of Republicans for environmental protection (www.rep.org), in cooperation with ConservAmerica, a non-partisan sister organization dedicated to building a conservative constituency for conservation (www.conservamerica.org).

CBM Water Issues and Water Treatment
Billings Gazette - New way with water: WWII-era science could help out coalbed methane industry. - January 9, 2004
Coal Bed Methane Water Treatment System- Drake Engineering
Coal bed methane water researcher swims in controversy as he tests the waters
"Most people don't set out in life with a goal of carting nearly a million pounds of soil 200 miles to meticulously watch it do its thing.
And they rarely set out to work for 20 years on a project and then be called a "terrorist" and other epithets."
Ruth: I can relate to being called a terrorist.... See my Dioxin in Tampons Page
Montana State University Water Quality & Irrigation Water Management Web Site
Scientist: Water from coalbed methane drilling serious problem - October 31, 2003
Montana Water
Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO - Measuring changes in the quality of the groundwater. (PDF)
Brookhaven National Laboratory - Coal-Eating Bacteria May Improve Methane Recovery - September 11, 2003
Office of Fossil Energy - Protecting Our Water Resources
EPA - Study of Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Wells on Underground Sources of Drinking Water
USGS Water Resources of Montana
The Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition
Montana Water Community Forums

Energy and Politics
Stop the Energy Bill! The Bush/Cheney Energy Plan in Action Ask Your Senators to Support the Energy Bill Filibuster!
Bush Campaign Ads Brought to You by Special Interests; Industries That Give to Bush Get Their Money’s Worth - MARCH 3, 2004
Capitol Monitor - Coal Bed Methane Issues
MotherJones.com - Dirty Secrets -September / October 2003
No president has gone after the nation's environmental laws with the same fury as George W. Bush and none has been so adept at staying under the radar.
Natural Resource Defense Council Energy Bill Revives Tax Break for Gas Drilling 10/17/2003
Western Ranchers, Conservationists Lament Failure Of Alternative Federal Energy Bill - April 3, 2003
Western Organization of Resource Councils - Take Action
Money’s Influence on House Energy Vote Could Extend to Senate - November 21, 2003
Dissenting Views on Energy Policy Act of 2003 Oil and Gas Provisions
Montana Legislative Scorecards
Re-focus.net - Members of U.S. Congress urge more funding for renewables December 12, 2003
One hundred and five members of the U.S. House of Representatives have asked president George Bush to increase funding levels for renewable energies.

The Senate voted on cloture on the Energy Bill, which would have cleared the way for final passage of H.R. 6.
By a vote of 57-40, the motion to invoke cloture was defeated.
See how your Senators voted

This is just the beginning! Please contact your senators and encourage them to support rewriting the entire energy bill.
If they were involved in the filibuster, then please thank them and encourage them to continue.

SaveOurEnvironment.org - Demand a Clean, Responsible Energy Policy
Send a message to your members of Congress
Victory for Now; Energy Bill Fight Could Resume in January
OneWorld.net - Environment Groups Assail Bush Record
The 1,200 page bill, which proponents will attempt to revive in the U.S. Senate next week, was crafted behind closed doors, contains a slew of anti environmental policies and does nothing to shift the nation's energy future away from fossil fuels or nuclear energy, Aurillio said. "It is like a dead fish," she said. "The longer it sits around, the more it stinks."

Stop the Energy Bill! The Bush/Cheney Energy Plan in Action - Ask Your Senators to Support the Energy Bill Filibuster!

Library of Congress - Search Bill Text 108th Congress (2003-2004):
H.R.3698 Western Waters and Surface Owners Protection Act (Introduced in House)
S.1149 Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2003 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)
H.R.6 Energy Policy Act of 2003 (Public Print)
S.2095 Energy Policy Act of 2003 (Introduced in Senate)
S.14 The Energy Policy Act of 2003 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)
S.1005 The Energy Policy Act of 2003 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)

Wind as an Alternative to CBM
Wind In Montana
Montana Green Power
American Wind Energy Association
Wind Energy Facts
Wind Energy in Wyoming
Wind Energy in North Dakota
Wind Energy in South Dakota
Comparative Impacts of Wind and Other Energy Sources on Wildlife
"The impacts of wind energy on wildlife are minimal, even where wind energy is widely used. --
Minimal harmful impacts on birds: In Denmark, the country with the most intensive use of wind energy, wind turbines generate 10% of electricity and are widespread, but have not been found to cause significant harm to wildlife including birds. Power lines pose a much greater threat to birds, according to Danish and U.S. studies. The National Audubon Society recently issued a statement in support of responsibly sited wind project development.
Positive impacts on wildlife: In 1998-99, 925 megawatts (MW)—equivalent to about four medium-size coal or one nuclear power plant—of wind energy generating capacity were added in the U.S., mostly on Iowa and Minnesota farmland. Based on the average U.S. electricity mix, this new wind power is, every year, saving 170 acres of land from mining, and displacing 10,128 tons of SO2, over 2 million tons of CO2, 6,500 tons of NOx, and many other pollutants, thereby helping provide cleaner air and healthier habitat for wildlife."
AWEA.org - Facts About Wind Energy And Birds - (PDF document)
Numerous Facts sheets from AWEA found here
Curry & Kerlinger - Consultants to the Wind Power Industry on birds and other wildlife issues.
Renewable Energy Policy Project - Wind Energy
The Havre Daily News - Institute trying to bring wind power meeting to the Hi-Line - November 24, 2003
The Havre Daily News - Wind power meeting set for Havre - December 10, 2003
Montana DEQ - Montana Wind Working Group
Montana Green Power - Wind News
MATR.net - Growin' in the Wind - Wind Energy Can Help Farmers, Ranchers Through Natural-Gas Crisis 10/08/03
National Wind Coordinating Committee - Resources
Alternative power being examined. - January 18, 2005

Mining Industry Links
Wyoming and Southeastern Montana Coal Basins
US Energy Corp - Press Releases
The Conference Board of Canada - Developing the Business of Coalbed Methane Conference, February 17 and 18, 2004
"Adapt Your Business Strategies to Exploit Coalbed Methane More Effectively"
National Mining Association - Latest Press Releases
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) - Strategic Center for Natural Gas (SCNG)
Marathon Oil Corporation - Coalbed Natural Gas Resources
Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States - Energy Links
MDU Resources Group - Fidelity to ask U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn 9th Circuit Decision 05/02/03
American Petroleum Institute - Meeting Future Natural Gas Demand
"Barriers to natural gas and LNG development must be removed."
PetroleumNews.com - Western Canada basin has hit gas peak; coalbed methane offers hope - April 6,2003
Evergreen Resources

Sour Gas and Other Mining Issues
Alberta Energy - The EUB Public Safety and Sour Gas Project
Sabatuersandbigoil.com - TransCanada's Pipeline Bursts In Northern Alberta
Editorial: Part of ‘no’ they don’t understand. - March 8, 2004
Mining interests have begun efforts to legalize the use of cyanide for processing ore, a practice banned by voters concerned about pollution to streams and ground water.
Brown backs repeal of cyanide mining ban. - March 18, 2004
Republican gubernatorial candidate and Secretary of State Bob Brown said Tuesday he is planning to vote for a proposed repeal of Montana’s 1998 ban on cyanide leach mining if the measure qualifies for the 2004 ballot. “Except for Montana, no other state in the United States bans cyanide,” Brown said in his release. “We are the only one.”
Wisconsin Campaign to Ban Cyanide in Mining

Blogs, Discussion Boards, and News Groups Regarding Coalbed Methane
Blog On!
Google News Group - Coalbed Methane Search
Earth Crash Earth Spirit