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Best Practice Guidance for Effective Methane Recovery and Use from Abandoned Coal Mines

Country:
Global,

Organisation:
UNECE,

Languages:
English,

Coal mines are the fourth largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions after the oil and gas sectors, landfills and livestock industries. Technological advances have made it possible to significantly reduce methane emissions from the gassiest working mines.

Closed mines can provide a small but significant opportunity to exploit a clean energy resource, known as Abandoned Mine Methane (AMM), that can be extracted and used. AMM capture and use offers many benefits, such as improved safety, air quality and health, energy supply and environmental performance.

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This document is aimed at raising awareness of AMM opportunities and hazards by providing accessible high-level guidance for senior corporate, government and financial decision-makers – all of whom play an integral role in decisions to implement best practices.

Recommended principles and standards on coal mine methane (CMM) capture and use have already been set out in the Best Practice Guidance on Effective Methane Drainage and Use in Coal Mines. This document complements that guidance and is aimed at completing the coal mining cycle by considering the methane emissions that continue after mining has ceased and mines have closed.

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