Transcript Best Practices Guidance for Effective Methane Drainage and Use in

The Importance of Employing Best
Practices for Coal Mine Methane (CMM)
Drainage and Use
Southwest China Coal Mine Methane (CMM) Development
Best Practices Workshop
December 8-9, 2015
Guiyang, Guizhou, China
Felicia A. Ruiz, Climate Change Division,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
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Best Practices Guidance for Effective
Methane Drainage and Use in Coal Mines
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Coal mines are not only a safety management challenge but a major
source of greenhouse gas emissions. Methane release during coal
mining creates unsafe working conditions in underground coal mines around the world.
The Best Practices Guidance intends to improve mine safety practices at active
underground coal mines, by supporting safer mining practices to reduce fatalities, injuries,
and property losses, while encouraging the use of CMM to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and utilize otherwise wasted energy resources.
Collaborative project between United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Group of Experts on Coal Mine Methane and the Global Methane Initiative (GMI)
– Drafted by international CMM technical experts; peer reviewed and published in 2010
– U.S. EPA financially supported outreach workshops organized by UNECE in China
(October 2010), Kazakhstan (May 2011), and Ukraine (September 2011)
– Guidance updated in 2015 to reflect market changes since original publication; case
studies added
– In January 2016, UNECE Group of Experts on CMM will undertake new U.S EPAfunded project to further disseminate Best Practices Guidance in China, India,
Kazakhstan and/or Turkey
– Guide is available in Chinese and many other languages:
http://www.unece.org/energy/se/cmm.html
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Adoption of Best Practices in CMM
Drainage and Use
 Adoption of best practices will:
– Strive to achieve a goal of zero fatalities, injuries, and
property losses from methane related accidents.
– Demonstrate global coal industry’s commitment to mine
safety, climate change mitigation, corporate social
responsibility, and good citizenship.
– Establish a global dialogue on CMM capture and use.
– Create critical linkages among coal industry, government,
and regulatory officials.
– Incorporate effective CMM capture as a part of an effective
risk management portfolio.
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