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Coalbed methane debate
Most people visiting this page will know that this is a hot topic here on the north coast. I haven't delved into it much - I'm pretty much against it.
My thoughts are - if methane is so lucrative, why drill for it when there's plenty of other sources (dumps, farms, etc.) where it is easy to create it? Does it cost more to produce methane from landfills/manure pits? Is it a matter of who owns the source? Landfills are usually owned by a city compared to the land owned, in this particular case, by a First Nations tribe. Or is it the quantity you can achieve for the buck. I imagine coalbed would produce much more in an hour/day than from say a landfill. How much does it cost per (how is methane measured) from coal bed drilling compared to a methane plant from a landfill? And finally, coalbed is not a renewable resource, from landfills would be. And if we extracted methane from landfills, wouldn't we in effect by trapping it be reducing greenhouse gases?
My thoughts are - if methane is so lucrative, why drill for it when there's plenty of other sources (dumps, farms, etc.) where it is easy to create it? Does it cost more to produce methane from landfills/manure pits? Is it a matter of who owns the source? Landfills are usually owned by a city compared to the land owned, in this particular case, by a First Nations tribe. Or is it the quantity you can achieve for the buck. I imagine coalbed would produce much more in an hour/day than from say a landfill. How much does it cost per (how is methane measured) from coal bed drilling compared to a methane plant from a landfill? And finally, coalbed is not a renewable resource, from landfills would be. And if we extracted methane from landfills, wouldn't we in effect by trapping it be reducing greenhouse gases?
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