Today, IPANM submitted comments to the BLM on their proposed Venting & Flaring policy changes which were mandated by the Whitehouse in its March 2014 Climate Strategy for Methane Reductions report. I have attached a copy of the comments to this email for you to read at your leisure. The IPANM comments will be distributed to the EPA as their pending whitepapers on methane reductions strategies are on the same topics. IPANM will be submitting comments to the whitepapers as well.
At the IPANM air quality workshop “UP the PIPE,” which was held last week in Albuquerque, the participants had the opportunity to learn about NSPS SubPart OOOO, the Whitehouse Climate Change Strategy, the BLM Venting plan and the EPA’s plans to further regulate methane emissions. We also had several sessions on the newly implemented Colorado Venting rules. We heard from some excellent experts from Trinity Consulting and TRC Companies as well as the regulators from EPA, BLM, NMED and CO. All the materials from the workshop are now on the IPANM website. The comments to the BLM and the EPA will be included at www.ipanm.org on the Regulatory tab as we submit them.
All the work to digest the technical papers and draft comments could not have been done without the extreme time and effort of IPANM Air Quality Committee members Bruce Stubbs, Kyle Alpers, Ed Hasely and Board President Richard Gilliland! Please thank these members for me when you see them. As always, if you have any questions or comments let us know.
