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Last month the DRBC sent out a letter informing Drilling Company Neufield that it will not approve ANY dockets for ANY natural gas well activity in the Delaware River Basin. (view letter). Prior to this edict by the Executive Director of the DRBC, water was the issue surrounding the extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale deposits in Northeast PA and New York State, but since Neufield would not be using water, or fraccing their exploratory wells, it appears that the Executive Director was spurred on by religious environmentalists who have run a campaign of fear and misinformation. This action has forced Neufield to initiate Force Majeure. In essence stopping the clock on the primary term of any lease signed by a landowner and holds that lease indefinately, without further payment.... Read More... |
By: Ron Stamets | Jan 10, 2010
A big bogus Thumbs Down for the November 8, 2008 Article in the Binghampton Press entitled Natural gas quest: State files show 270 drilling accidents in past 30 years. Newspapers were at one time held accountable for misrepresenting facts to further an agenda. This article misleads the public regarding the historical safety of well operations in PA and New York. ... Read more
Obama Administration Not Aware of 1 Documented Instance of Hydraulic Fracturing Contamination
By: Ron Stamets | Dec 08, 2009
With over a million uses of the hydro-fraccing technology, the Senate and Public Works Committee could not identify a single documented instance of groundwater contamination as a result of using the technology of hydrofraccing.
Is this a case of fuzzy science by the EPA and every other environmental agency in every state? Or is this another Climategate type of issue? ... Read more
A Mixed Bag of Fear, Fact, and Outright Mis-Information
By: Ron Stamets | Sep 30, 2009
Over the past year we have been sometimes labled as not being concerned enough about the environmental impact of natural gas drilling. We have also been labled by some as being greedy landowners who want to suck the blood out of the drilling companies and get rich at their expense... Extracting unreasonable demands for using our land for natural gas exploration. So in a very real sense, as Andy Rooney once said, I am going to make someone angry and it may as well be those I disagree with. ... Read more
Natural Gas Leasing - Understand what you are signing!
By: Ron Stamets | Jan 19, 2009
So... The landman has plopped down a natural gas lease agreement on the table and is offering you more money per acre than you paid for the farm itself! What to do? Start acquiring infomation about what it is that he/she is asking of you ... Read more
