Today (April 21st) marks the close of the British Columbia Tenure Referral Process. After today the BC government will choose to grant BP rights for its 500 sq/km mist mountain CBM project.
Click the following link to send a quick message to representatives and make them think twice before they approve this wrongheaded project that they invited upon the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia.
Coalbed methane is a type of gas trapped underground in coal deposits. Getting it out of the ground is difficult, and in other places has caused serious environmental impacts.
Already 20+ test wells have been drilled north of Elkford, and that area is poised to become the first commercial CBM development in all of B.C.
BP Canada was planning to drill exploratory wells this spring. Largely due to your efforts their plans have now been delayed until the spring of 2009.
