Committee on Earth Resources

Events

April 8-9, 2008
Meeting of the Committee on Earth Resources
The Adam's Mark Hotel (Soon to be Sheraton), Denver
1550 Court Place
Denver, CO 80202
Hotel ph: (303) 893-3333
Agenda

Presentations (If link is inactive, permission to post is pending)

Matthew Janowiak (Bureau of Land Management) - Oral Presentation
Mary Smith (Environmental Protection Agency)
Jon Jaffe (Anandarko Petroleum)
Arthur Compton (Montana Department of Environmental Quality)
William DiRienzo (Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality)
Debbie Baldwin (Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission)

H. William Hochheiser (Department of Energy)
Kathy Lynch (Trout Unlimited)
James Kuipers (Kuipers and Associates, LLC)
Bruce Langhus (ALL Consulting, LLC)
Geoff Thyne (University of Wyoming)
James Otton (U.S. Geological Survey)

Background
The Energy Policy Act of 2005, Section 1811, requires that the
Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency arrange for the National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct a study on the effects of
coalbed natural gas (also known as coalbed methane [CBM])
production on surface and ground water resources in the
States of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North
Dakota, and Utah.

Prior to developing the scope of any such NAS study, the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) has requested that a public meeting be
convened by the Committee on Earth Resources of the NAS to
facilitate discussion of the current status of data and management
of the effects of CBM production on surface and ground water
resources in the western United States. Discussions at the
meeting will help inform decisions regarding the need and scope
for further independent analysis on the topic of the effects of
CBM production on water resources.

Meeting organization
The Committee on Earth Resources has invited experts from
federal and state government, academia, industry, citizens groups,
and other organizations to speak in two panel sessions and to
participate in discussions over the course of one meeting day,
April 8, which will be open to the public. A short summary session
on the morning of April 9 will conclude the open proceedings. The
panels and panel topics are listed in the preliminary meeting
agenda. Although the presentations made at the meeting may be
made available to the public by the National Research Council
(NRC), no written account of the proceedings will be produced
by the Committee on Earth Resources, the NAS, or the NRC.

Updated 4/15/08