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EISs chart bigger future for Powder River CBM
05/12/2003
The US Bureau of Land Management issued final environmental impact statements on Apr. 30 that govern coalbed methane drilling on federal lands in the Powder River basin in eastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana.This frees the BLM to begin issuing permits to drill in both states unless environmental groups, as threatened, convince a judge to stay the decisions.BLM's Wyoming office has received requests for 1,000 CBM drilling permits and hopes to issue 3,000 permits/year.Operators drilled 4,502 wells in 2000 and 4,232 in 2001 and would like to drill 4,500-5,000 wells/year. This would seem to require issuance of 6,400-7,200 permits/year because 30% of the 31,000 permits issued since 19...
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