Lessors Beware
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Martin Saffer
Dec 2, 2011
5:22 am
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Lessors Beware
Very informative article in NY Times about leasing gas rights. |
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egad
Dec 3, 2011
7:07 am
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Re: Lessors Beware
Informative, but too late. Ho, hum. Everybody got fooled. Now folks are lining up in Pocahontas to have the same thing done to them. Here is a warning to shut-the-barn-door-before-the-horse-gets-out from the Eight Rivers Council Newsletter: For any of you who are listening to Commissioner Saffer’s prayer that horizontal drilling isn’t coming to Pocahontas take a look at the map he himself is touting at Download a good copy and look carefully. The grey area where drilling is occurring, (what the legend describes as “Completed wells—Marcellus Pay Zone”) extends well into Pocahontas. Look some more. There are wells to the north, even on the light blue and verge of the white areas, and wells to the south. So wells are in Pendleton, Grant, Randolph, Greenbrier and Webster Counties. There is now alarm in the Harrisonburg area about fracking, Ponzi schemes revolving around wells, and other scams http://www.kaidegner.com/featuredpost/hydrofracking-is-bad-business-too.htm. So far the town council and the Rockingham County Supervisors have made the drillers seek other victims. Let your own eyes decide if you think the dark angel of drilling will just skip over us. How much are you willing to gamble against irreplaceable clean water? |
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freeholder
Dec 3, 2011
1:24 pm
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Re: Lessors Beware
It is illogical to believe that Pocahontas Co. will be spared if horizontal drilling takes place in adjoining counties; If they have gas fields large enough to be tapped then Pokey does too. Also, if the commission is without authority ,if the state will not act, and the federal government by way of the national forest which takes up nearly half of the land is disinterested ,the gas drillers will win. They have already paid some landowners for the right to drill.They have plenty of money and time , they spend millions on propaganda to assure us that they will not destroy our water, that they know where the aquafers are and will protect them. Many citizens will believe them,regardless of contrary information from other states. Who can stop the inevitable? Perhaps we would do well to try to derive some good from this coming calamity:one would be to pay royalties to every citizen in the county as Alska does with oil. Wv is a state , Alaska is a state,oil is a natural resource,gas is a natural resource.What was done in Alska could be done in WV. Just as Commission invited and paid a spokesperson from the University to address the topic, they should invite someone from Juneau to do so on royalty payments.This would be an excellent use of scarce taxpayer money. |