Assessment of Potential Effects of Water Produced from Coalbed Natural Gas Development on Macroinvertebrate and Algal Communities in the Powder River and Tongue River, Wyoming and Montana, 2010

Download or read book Assessment of Potential Effects of Water Produced from Coalbed Natural Gas Development on Macroinvertebrate and Algal Communities in the Powder River and Tongue River, Wyoming and Montana, 2010 written by U.S. Department of the Interior and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development of energy and mineral resources in the Powder River structural basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana (fig. 1) includes coalbed natural gas, conventional oil and gas, and coal mining. A common byproduct of coalbed natural gas (CBNG) development is discharge of groundwater that commonly is saline or unsuitable for irrigation of crops and has unknown effects on the aquatic communities inhabiting streams that receive the water (Bureau of Land Management, 2009).