AGENDA: Best Management Practices (BMPs): What? How? And Why?

• Main Authors: Houston Advanced Research Center. Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Program, Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, University of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center. Intermountain Oil and Gas BMP Project
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Colorado Law Scholarly Commons 2011
• Subjects: best management practices; natural gas reserves; oil and gas development; environmental protection; costs and benefits; energy technologies; energy sources; environmentally sensitive areas; environmental footprint; large-scale planning; Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Program; Houston Advanced Research Center; multi-well development; planning; Colorado Department of Natural Resources; Wildlife Mitigation Plan; WMP; Comprehensive Drilling Plan; CDP; Geographic Area Plan; GAP; Master Development Plans; MDPs; oil and gas projects; collaborative planning; lessons learned; Colorado Oil and Gas Association; COGA; Public Perception Study; Marcellus Shale; BMPs for reclamation; effectiveness; economic benefits of reclamation; Arctic Ecosystem Services Measurement and Modeling Project; Rural West Gas Patch; urban challenges; EPA Region 8; Environmental Protection Agency; WildEarth Guardians; Wyoming Reclamation and Restoration Center; Western States Reclamation; managing air quality; cost/benefit analysis of BMPs; Administrative Law; Animal Law; Climate; Energy and Utilities Law; Energy Policy; Environmental Health and Protection; Environmental Law; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Policy; Natural Resource Economics; Natural Resources and Conservation; Natural Resources Law; Natural Resources Management and Policy; Oil; Gas; and Energy; and Mineral Law; Science and Technology Law; State and Local Government Law; Urban Studies and Planning; Water Law; Water Resource Management; Arctic
• Online Access: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/best-management-practices-bmps/1; https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=best-management-practices-bmps

The Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems (EFD) Program, managed by the Houston Advanced Research Center, works to identify, develop and transfer critical, cost effective, new technologies that can provide policy makers and industry with the ability to develop natural gas reserves in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. Funding for the EFD Program is through a grant from the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, established under the 2005 Energy Act. Within the EFD Program, some projects focus on technologies for developing energy sources in environmentally sensitive areas; others (like the NRLC’s BMP Project) seek ways to reduce the environmental footprint in all types of environments. The EFD Program currently provides the majority of funding for the Intermountain Oil and Gas BMP project. The EFD Program holds quarterly workshops to share ideas among the program partners, sponsors, and with the broader community. The NRLC hosted the EFD's quarterly meeting in a workshop on May 26, 2011 at the Wolf Law Building on the University of Colorado campus. With presentations from EFD project researchers and perspectives invited from all participants, the May, 2011 EFD workshop explored the value of different methods for incorporating BMPs into a development as well as the benefits and cost of implementing BMPs. See the NRLC's Intermountain Oil and Gas BMP Project for more information on BMPs and how they can be implemented in oil and gas development.