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I knew my county had a lot of wells. But I was shocked to see this table!!
I don't understand how some of these people have signed leases living in neighborhoods where the homes are in close proximity to one another. I haven't had the time to research how it works either. But I just don't see how they could have a lease on a < 1/4 acre plot?
pcray1231 wrote:
I don't understand how some of these people have signed leases living in neighborhoods where the homes are in close proximity to one another. I haven't had the time to research how it works either. But I just don't see how they could have a lease on a < 1/4 acre plot?
Could you be mixing up leases for gas extraction vs. lease for a well pad?
Bore hole is horizontal. It may go UNDER your property (requiring a lease) without having a surface well pad ON your property.
Traffic, road wear, and tearing communities apart were and remain my biggest concerns.
pcray1231 wrote:
Each pad may have 12 wells on it, each hole going over a mile horizontally in one direction. Combined they spread out in a "wheel spoke" fashion from the pad. So, a single pad essentially drains gas from everything within a mile radius in every direction.
Can you imagine how many properties you go under to do that? And you pretty much need a lease from every property owner, or else that particular well won't happen (leaving out a spoke).
In such situations with small plots, you can imagine the pressure from the neighbors? Any one of them on your "spoke" doesn't sign, and that particular bore hole doesn't happen, and none of them get royalties (the signing bonus is often a small part of the $). Yet they're gonna put the dang pad down anyway and run the other 11 spokes. All of the trouble with none of the $ all cause Jim Bob here won't sign. Yet, Jim Bob may have a tiny plot and it makes sense for him, as his royalties are miniscule.
Traffic, road wear, and tearing communities apart were and remain my biggest concerns.
Missy wrote:
Gudgeonville, I don't find that the members of this group are naive in any sense. I know that they are a dedicated group of fly-fishing men (and women) who are smart, funny as hell, who were giving the industry the benefit of the doubt when this all started to happen, but who are growing dismayed and concerned over the obviously out-of-touch views of the gas drilling industry that does not understand what PA represents. We like our farms. We like our forests and parks. We would like them to stay farms, forests, and parks. That is why PA invested so much time and money into preserving, restoring, and acquiring land to pass this treasure to our families. And I don't think the analogy of the pig farm is good in any sense. At least pig droppings are natural and the stink...well I think most of us would rather live next to a pig farm than a well pad, reservoir, or compressor station any day. Pig farms do not use chemicals that contain[color=660000] endocrine disruptors, carcinogenics, neurotoxins, mutagenics,[/color] and diesel fuel. Aesthetics? You don't understand this state or it's people (or their children). While I appreciate your attempt to express the fact that you don't like destroying a view, I think you fall short of understanding what your work is really doing-or you just don't care. If I didn't like my job, I'd get a new one. Drilling will not keep families together. Drilling will not keep neighbors together. PA is more than some driller's paycheck. It is our home. Where will you fish when the streams aren't fishable any more? What state?