Dex "The Cougar is firing"...believe it.My wife and I spent the...

Dex
"The Cougar is firing"...believe it.
My wife and I spent the last two months in the Ukraine
visiting relatives.Just before the swine flu scare in
the west of the country,we attended a meeting sponsored
by an American coal company in Donetsk,the coal mining
capital of Ukraine.

Necessity being the mother of invention has come to the
fore in Ukraine.In a region that encompasses Kharkov,
Poltava,Lugansk and Donetsk there is rapid development
of their coal resources using UCG.

The academy of sciences in Donetsk have developed a UCG
tech that combines the Russian,American and their own
advancements,to produce a superior blend of gas extract-
ion using UCG.

Ukraine view their uspihivv-z-hutti (good fortune in life)
as a natural progression for power generation.

Since gaining independence in Dec 1991,Ukraine has been
at constant loggerheads with Russia over the natural
gas pipeline that crosses their landscape supplying 18
European countries.(Russia claims Ukraine has been
stealing gas.)

These ongoing disputes between the two countries have
caused major disruptions..in the form of gas reduction,
to total cut off,especially during the 2005/2008 period,
where serious confrontation saw Ukraine often without
cooking/heating gas in winter.

The general feeling that many had after the meeting at
Donetsk was that..don't think for a minute that the
energy problems facing Ukraine can't happen here.With
less than a decade of oil left in Australia and using
the Arab oil embargo of 1973/74 as a reminder...it could
"all happen again tomorrow."

I'll wager that Walker/Blinderman have an intimate
knowledge of the Ukranian method of gas extraction and
the "ignition" at Kingaroy will turn out to be the
"mother" of all burns and remove all doubts remaining
in the skeptics.

Finally, our planet is up against its limits as to what
it can produce for an ever increasing humanity and our
deep coal needs to be elevated to the same status as the
Ukraine view theirs.

Next week should see a substantial announcement regarding
future trends for Cougar..now that CNX has fluttered its
wings.

HM.