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Category Archives: Fracking and Real Estate
Still Thinking Gas Companies Care About Your Property Rights? Think Again.
Compulsory Integration. Have you heard of it yet? You should… In 2007, a landman came calling at Mike and Velda Ward’s 110-acre golf course in Delphi Falls. Their wide open acreage right at the northern edge of the Marcellus Shale natural gas … Continue reading
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Tagged compulsory integration, dec, fracking, natural gas, property rights
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No property rights when the gas companies come to your front yard…
I (Christine Ruggiero) will start this story by saying that Aruba Petroleum has taken a great deal from my family, but they cannot take away our faith in God. This story may sound like one of defeat, but we are … Continue reading
Gas Companies Try to Deny Landowner’s Property Rights
Want to protect your property rights? Think you have the right to decide what happens to the natural gas under your property? Don’t count on the gas companies to honor your decision if it’s not what they want. Today’s headline … Continue reading
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Tagged law suit, natural gas, property rights, west virginia, xto
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Dateline Australia: Fracking in the Catskills and Pennsylvania
Are landscapes and water supplies being ruined by fracking? Dateline reports on the controversial way of tapping into gas reserves that’s splitting the US.
Map of PA at Full Well Density — A Well Every Square Mile
Many of us have lived with traditional gas drilling in our countryside, which has been fairly unobtrusive. This gas rush is a totally different game. According to US Geological Survey Geologist Bill Kappell, at the initial full drilling density there … Continue reading
Why Worry?
Wondering why we should worry about fracking happening in — or even near — Andes? There are lots of reasons. We think this one is one of the biggest: 60 trucks an hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a … Continue reading
“What a frackin’ mess.” Editorial from the Daily Star
A review of the DEC’s proposals tells me that the agency realizes how risky and potentially disastrous fracking is. Otherwise, why would some of its revisions seem so stringent or limiting? Click here to read the whole article…
Residents Condemn Effects of Drilling
There has been a gas drilling boom in Southwestern PA as well as NorthEastern PA. Residents here are complaining of negative health impacts, negative impacts on their property values, and the gas companies doing their best to avoid any efforts … Continue reading
