Drilling and "fraccing" (a process used to increase the flow of gas underground) can lead to methane seeping into drinking water aquifers.
Coalbed Methane Sparks Debate: Who's to Blame for Gassy Water? (Pembina Institute)
Tainted water lights fire under gas fears (Edmonton Journal, 2005)
Is our water safe? (Albertaviews, October 2006)
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.
