Companies have abandoned 8,000 coal-bed methane wells on public lands in Wyoming – Who pays?

Posted by on May 30, 2015 @ 7:06 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: May 29, 2015

Coal-bed methane was going to be the answer to Wyoming’s slumping oil-based economy. Companies flocked to the Powder River Basin in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the promise of big money was available to anyone with a dream and ability to work hard. Thousands of wells popped up. The BLM oversees 15,662 coal-bed methane wells in the Powder River Basin alone, said...

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