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To: GC who wrote (295)4/30/2008 9:24:22 AM
From: GC  Read Replies (1) of 337
 
Put water back where it belongs

Thursday, February 9, 2006 2:05 AM MST

Editor:

I certainly agree with the headline, "Industry holds key to CBM water dispute," on the Casper Star-Tribune editorial in the Feb. 2 issue. Here in the Powder River Basin, we've been waiting for years for industry to turn that key, but the CBM water waste and disputes just keep mounting.

The coal-bed methane industry's preferred method of dealing with the huge volumes of produced water -- dumping it onto the ground or into streambeds where it destroys good pastureland before flowing forever out of the state -- will only create more friction. Ranchers and landowners on the Wyoming side of the Powder River Basin join their neighbors in Montana in asking for better stewardship of this valuable resource.

We've asked the state Environmental Quality Council to address the waste of land and water with a better water quality rule. But as the Star-Tribune editorial points out, industry in the meantime should take a page from Anadarko's playbook by piping this water somewhere where it can be injected into the ground for future use.

As the editorial correctly observes, "Our elected officials might better serve their constituents ? by encouraging the industry to follow Anadarko's example." We also suggest the state take a leadership role and help make this happen, before we've lost a resource that's just as valuable as the gas -- and damaged more soil and vegetation in the process.

CAROL LeRESCHE, Sheridan
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