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By arimoore, on December 23rd, 2009%
Early this year Bo Lindsay made this useful PDF file enabling others to stay informed on the DEC’s status of pending gas well applications in NYS. Unlike PA, NYS has no single URL that displays this data. Without these instructions there is no other way to access and to stay informed on status of individual gas wells. An example of the DEC data is shown at the top of the PDF.
The file has just been revised to include a live clickable link to the DEC’s site to avoid manually typing the long URL. Thanks to Bo for this useful tool.
NYS gas well permit applications (PDF)
By arimoore, on December 1st, 2009%
The free panel presentation, “Gas Drilling: Legal Issues For Land Owners” held on Thursday, Oct. 29, 7:00-9:30 pm at the Cornell Vet School is now available on the ccetompkins.org website in 2 installments:
http://ccetompkins.org/legalissues1.wmv (167MB)
1 hour 43 minutes – Panel Presentation
http://ccetompkins.org/legalissues2.wmv (146MB)
1 hour 16 minutes – Questions & Answers
The event included presentations by legal experts on the terminology and issues surrounding natural gas leases, and was followed by an opportunity to ask questions. Topics included general lease terminology, force majeure lease extensions, compulsory integration (the legal extraction of gas from under unleased land), liability issues, and the protection of rights and property. it was sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension South Central NY Agriculture Team, with Shaleshock Citizens Action Coalition, the Community Science Institute, Finger Lakes Bioneers, Interfaith Action for Healing Earth, NYS Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, Sustainable Tompkins, and the Tompkins County Farm Bureau.
By arimoore, on October 12th, 2009%
Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition presents the local premier of the film, SPLIT ESTATE: What you don’t know about natural gas production can hurt you. Discussion to follow.
7pm Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Lost Dog Café Violet Room
222 Water Street, Binghamton, NY
It sounds like a nightmare from the Twilight Zone. Picture this. Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. Split Estate (2009, 76min) maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.”
Ordinary homeowners and ranchers absorb the cost. Actually, we all pay the price in this devastating clash of interests that extends well beyond the Rockies. Aggressively seeking new leases in as many as 32 states, the industry is even making a bid to drill in the New York City watershed, which provides drinking water to millions, and throughout upstate New York and Pennsylvania. As public health concerns mount, Split Estate cracks the sugarcoating on an industry touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels, and poignantly drives home the need for real alternatives.
This series, which runs for five Tuesdays this fall, features films and discussions on how we can work together to create a more sustainable region. The next screenings in the series are on October 27, November 10 and December 8. This series is organized by Binghamton University Environmental Studies students of “Sustainability and Social Movements” in partnership with the Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition.
For more information contact Gabriel Piser, Adjunct Lecturer, Environment Studies, Latin American Studies, Binghamton University, at gabrielpiser@gmail.com
Coordinating Committee: Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition. Press contact: flint@igc.org, 607-761-8337
By arimoore, on October 9th, 2009%
Gas Drilling: Legal Issues for Landowners (with or without a lease)
A free educational forum, open to all
With increased natural gas development in the Southern Tier will come new and complex legal issues that affect both landowners and communities. Please join us on Thursday, October 29, from 7:00 to 9:30 pm to hear presentations by legal experts, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
The forum will be held at Cornell Vet School’s James Law Auditorium on Tower Road, just a block from Rt. 366.
Topics will include
- lease terms and considerations
- “force majeure” lease extensions
- intricacies of lease extension/expiration
- compulsory integration (the legal extraction of gas from under unleased lands)
- liability issues
- protection of rights and property
All are encouraged to attend this unique event sponsored by the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) South Central NY Agricultural Team, together with Shaleshock Citizens Action Coalition, Community Science Institute, Finger Lakes Bioneers, Interfaith Action for Healing Earth, NYS Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, Sustainable Tompkins, and Tompkins County Farm Bureau.
For more information, please contact Schuyler CCE at 607-535-7161, or Tompkins CCE at 272-2292, or by email at: cab377@cornell.edu. More details will soon be posted to the CCE Natural Gas Development Resource Center website: http://gasleasing.cce.cornell.edu/ .
By arimoore, on September 28th, 2009%
A team of Elmira attorneys is questioning the methods that two of the area’s leading gas companies are using to extend some of their leases in Chemung County.
The companies, Fortuna Energy Co. and Chesapeake Energy Corp., have halted their Marcellus Shale programs in New York while the state updates its environmental policies for drilling into the formation.
But they are using the delay as grounds to extend the terms of some of their leases without renegotiating new terms with the landowners.
Read the rest here.
By arimoore, on September 21st, 2009%
Read Tom Wilbur’s Marcellus Shale: A tale of two cities:
Nearly two years after drilling began in Dimock, residents, rich and poor, have learned to live with the routine din and clamor of drilling rigs and traffic.
As more wells come on line, royalty payments flow in as gas flows out. Some have made millions, while others have made just enough to disqualify them from food stamps… “All we want is a decent place to live and decent water,” said Fiorentino, whose royalty payments have averaged less than $300 a month. “Why do some people get water and compensation, and others don’t?” (Read more)
By arimoore, on September 15th, 2009%
Shaleshock has emailed the Democratic Primary candidates for Tompkins County Legislature, District 11, Peter Stein and Michael Koplinka-Loehr, asking if they would weigh in on their opinions about gas drilling in our region. Mr. Koplinka-Loehr has responded, and his reply is pasted below. Shaleshock makes no endorsement for either candidate.
Continue reading Candidate Koplinka-Loehr's Views on Unconventional Gas Drilling
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About Us Shaleshock is an information hub connecting people to regional groups and projects working to stop exploitative drilling in the Marcellus Shale.(more)
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