TY - SER TI - CBM - the saviour of Canada's natural gas industry KW - Canadá KW - Industria del gas N2 - The news reports sound dire - according to Statistics Canada, conventional gas fields are depleting at an alarming rate of 20% per year. However, rather than foretelling the imminent collapse of the industry, the National Energy Board (NEB) predicts that production will actually rise from the current rate of 16.9bn cf/d to 17.35bn cf/d by 2007. The reason is coal bed methane (CBM) ER -