CBM in other places
The coalbed methane industry has a poor track record elsewhere in North America.
In Wyoming's Powder River Basin, where there are now some 14,000 wells, coalbed methane development has contaminated ranchers' water supplies, degraded agricultural land, and industrialized a previously rural landscape.
When the industry moved into Alberta, residents were promised the Wyoming experience would not be repeated. However, Alberta landowners are now having many of the same problems.
