How do energy producers manage the water?
The suggestion that a single “silver-bullet” solution exists to an issue as complex as management of water produced from CBNG wells is nave. Many management options are available that need to be evaluated in each individual situation. The evaluation needs to consider landowner needs and requirements, regulatory requirements, produced and surface water quality and quantity, soil types and terrain, land uses at the project site and downstream, the timing of the project and the economics of the project. It is highly likely that the intelligent water management plan for any given project will include several of the possible water management alternatives. Fidelity is currently providing water to ranchers for stock water, conducting managed irrigation on some lands, providing water to nearby coal mines for industrial use (primarily dust abatement), discharging limited volumes of water directly to the Tongue River under a discharge permit issued by the Montana Department of Environmental Qual
