Marcellus Shale: The Real Price of Compulsory Integration In New York

December 7th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | | 2 comments
Workers adjust a drilling rig at Anschutz Exploration Corp.‘s natural gas well in Big Flats, N.Y. Photo: Peter Mantiu
Workers adjust a drilling rig at Anschutz Exploration Corp.‘s natural gas well in Big Flats, N.Y. Photo: Peter Mantiu
The natural gas industry made Joe Todd an offer he couldn’t refuse.

He told them no, but New York State’s industry-drafted 2005 “compulsory integration” law made resistance pointless.

Todd had turned away a landman who tried last year to convince him to lease his property to a Denver-based gas driller. Then he received an official letter in January that said he had to surrender his subterranean property rights for a financial stake in the same Colorado driller’s new well operation less than a mile from his home in Big Flats, N.Y. He ripped up the letter and threw it in the trash.

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Gov. Paterson Vetoes NY Drilling Moratorium, but bans High-Volume Hydofracking Until July 2011

December 1st, 2010 | Bulldog Blog | | One comment
Photo: http://www.marcellusprotest.org
Photo: http://www.marcellusprotest.org

Gov. David Paterson on Dec. 11 vetoed a bill that would have banned a wide range of gas drilling in New York State until the spring, but he placated environmental groups by issuing an order the same day that bans high-volume, horizontal hydrofracking in the state through July 1, 2011.

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Pennsylvania Gas Drillers Dumping Radioactive Waste in New York

November 23rd, 2010 | Bulldog Blog | | Leave a comment
Dr. Earl Robinson, a pulmonologist who lives less than a mile away, noted that people who live near landfills often have higher rates of lung and bladder cancer than those who don’t.
Dr. Earl Robinson, a pulmonologist who lives less than a mile away, noted that people who live near landfills often have higher rates of lung and bladder cancer than those who don’t.

ELMIRA, N.Y. — Trucks hauling rock cuttings from drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania regularly cross the New York State border these days to dump in the Chemung County Landfill seven miles east of Elmira.

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The Marcellus Shale Play: Enviros and Drillers Agree – State Environmental Regulators Can’t Protect N.Y.

November 9th, 2010 | Bulldog Blog | | Leave a comment
Photo: Pete Grannis
Photo: Pete Grannis
Both sides of the raging battle over natural gas drilling in New York State agree that the state agency charged with protecting the environment and issuing drilling permits has been gutted so severely that it’s no longer capable of doing its job.

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