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National experts are reviewing what’s known about the effects of coal-bed methane gas production on the region’s water.
A committee meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Denver Tuesday comes amid a natural gas boom in the Rockies that includes coal-bed methane drilling. The process taps natural gas by pumping groundwater and releasing methane in coal seams.
The 2005 federal energy bill mandated a study of coal-bed methane production on surface water and groundwater in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah and North Dakota.
