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Infrastructure - Landscapes & Aerial Photos - Streams & Rivers
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Infrastructure

Aeration pond

Fence

Cattle guard


Roads


CBM cattle tank


Interior of a compressor station

Second stage compressor station

Cutting pit

Drill cuttings

Drill site

Frozen CBM well

Holding pond

Holding tanks

In-channel impoundment

Lined impoundment

Methane belching cattle tank

Methane electricity generator

Reinjection site equipment

Reinjection site

Well head
Wetland created with CBM water Wetland created with CMB water Wetland outflow Well pod

Product water outflow

Drill rig

New pipeline

New pipeline


Landscapes & Aerial Photos
CBM landscape CBM Landscape CBM landscape CBM landscape

CBM roads

Compressor station

Compressor station

Decker coal mine

Impoundment in ephemeral stream

Holding pond near pivot

Tongue River landscape

Tongue River landscape

Tongue River landscape

Well landscape
   


Streams & Rivers

CBM discharge channel

Ephemeral channel

Subirrigated ephemeral stream

CBM pond trout


Plants & Soil
Bulrush CBM discharge channel streambed Creeping spikerush Dispersed soil
 


Tours
Surveying prior to drilling Animas River warning Hidden well
CBM site monitoring
Coal fines

3rd stage compressor station

Drill site

Well pad


Open compressor site


Revegetation along a pipeline

Roadbed erosion


Graphics

Natural gas
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