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EPA hearing comment: The essential question is never asked
Oral comment on scoping document for EPA study, 9/15/10, Binghamton, NY: I own 200+ acres. I was offered a lease, and experience the difficult consequences of both long- and short-term economic trends. Yet this is not another plea for gas extraction. The first problem with this scope is its foregone conclusion, found in its very […]
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Send lawyers, guns and money
Actually, looks as if the lawyers have already arrived: http://water-contamination-from-shale.com/ (This is not an endorsement – just news.)
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A foregone conclusion
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson: “Natural gas is an important part of our nation’s energy future, and it’s critical that the extraction of this valuable natural resource does not come at the expense of safe water and healthy communities.” -EPA press release, 9/09/10 Okay. Most of the conventional natural gas is gone. What’s left? Unconventional natural gas such as […]
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Promises, promises
No economic boom, inadequate tax revenues, low royalties, wrecked roads, bad water. So what else is new? From NewsInferno.com 9/13/2010: Fracking in Arkansas Falling Short of Promise It appears that hydraulic fracturing in Arkansas’ Fayetteville shale isn’t living up to past promises. According to a report in Arkansas Business, depressed natural gas prices have eaten away at royalties […]
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“What about the money?”
When I was preparing for my first trip to the Marcellus Shale, I was approached by someone who lived in Upstate New York to discuss the issues that was going on in DISH as well as the Barnett Shale in general. As we began discussing the lessons learned here about leasing, and the amount of money […]
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Every agency has its price
Side-by-side sampling reveals that the Texas Department of Environmental Quality air monitor in Dish, Texas is under-recording toxic VOC levels in the air. Now why d’ya suppose it’d do that?
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How long could you live with this?
Week-long well flaring, 24/7, West Virginia
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Out of the landman’s mouth, an occasional truth
“‘I’ve signed farmers who were sitting there with broken-down equipment, a broken roof, losing money because they wouldn’t put a fence up to keep critters out of their corn silo,’ Casale said. ‘You go and write them a check and they’ve got a brand-new tractor and a brand-new Ford truck, and the corn silo’s still […]
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Clearfield County, PA District Attorney: Fraudulent deeds used to steal gas rights
Press release July 15, 2010 Clearfield County (PA) District Attorney, William A. Shaw, Jr., announced that an investigation is ongoing to determine the circumstances surrounding the recording of fraudulent deeds filed at the Clearfield County Courthouse. Shaw reported that “the investigation is focusing on irregularities that appear in several deeds claiming ownership of gas rights […]