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A recent incident in Franklin Forks, Pennsylvania, demonstrates just how easily the record can be distorted on natural gas development by special interests determined to exploit accusations, assertions and speculation as if they were facts. Some folks reading the title ”Guilty until Proven Innocent” might not catch the error in this statement. Public opinion has become the new justice system as a mob mentality seems to have taken over. Too often, though, the opinion, unfortunately, is not from research, but from groups who are employed to change public opinion (e.g., NRDC, Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club). These environmental groups seen have no boundaries. A once respected driven cause has now gained enough power to work the opposite of its original intent, damaging those who operate on legitimate foundations. I’ll use just one example. Google “Franklin Forks, PA.” It’s a small town like its neighbor Dimock. Until recently few ever heard of either place. Franklin Forks has a State Park called Salt Springs. Mostly, it’s noted for bubbling methane (better known as natural gas) in the spring water. However, when you google Franklin Forks you’re not going to see this state park on the first or the second page of listings. What you will find is the story of the Manning family and their supposedly contaminated water well. It was all over the TV, internet, and newspapers. naturalgasnow.org/guilty-until-proven-in...-natural-gas-crimes/
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Tom Wilber recently wrote on the decline of journalism and surmised that phenomenon is resulting in limited media coverage of shale development requiring citizen journalists to fill the void. That’s one way of looking at the situation, albeit one that is slightly removed from recent experience. Read more at eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/a-lack-...e-development/19960/
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The Town of Sanford has only a handful of people against natural gas, and these individuals attend every meeting, offering the same arguments at every turn. Read more at eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/sanford...as-opposition/19914/
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What makes the sun shine brighter in the South? Florida Power and Light prides itself on having a 26 percent lower energy bill than the national average; and, to top it off, they like their energy home grown. Bryant LaTourette, an upstate New York landowner, has a second home in Florida and is shocked at how low his electric bills there are. The reason for the lower energy costs? Primarily natural gas! Read more at eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/sun-shi...s-natural-gas/19936/
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Credible means “offering reasonable grounds to be believed.” Consider whether the word “credible” applies to any of the dire predictions made on the first Earth Day in 1970. Ecologist Ken Watt said, “By the year 2000…there won’t be any more crude oil.” Biologist Barry Commoner said, “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation and the world as a suitable place of human habitation.” Harvard biologist George Wald said, “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken.” Forty-plus years later, we’re still here and we are awash in oil. naturalgasnow.org/?p=39
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FrackNation was viewed in Sullivan County, New York last week near the homes of some celebrity activists opposed to natural gas development – activists like Mark Ruffalo, who seems unwilling to actually debate the issue with knowledgeable folks who disagree with his opinions. Read more at eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/frackna...ing-the-truth/19877/
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Stories like this remind us that there is a world out there beyond 'our' borders that is thriving and living. New Yorkers? .... We lie here like Dracula, eyes wide open looking up from the crypt, waiting for the hammer swinging downward to strike the stake and end it all. www.forbes.com/sites/pikeresearch/2013/0...els-new-energy-boom/
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To repeat: www.dimockproud.com. This website is a real eye opener and I found nothing in the JLCNY using the search function...:huh:??? This is now no longer a well hidden secret. Put the link on all your Twitter and Facebook pages and email all your friends about the website.
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Henry: good article, however I just experienced the opposite! The last tax bill on my just recently purchased land was actually 4 acres LESS than what was surveyed last summer. I inquired about this to my lawyer and he said it is not uncommon for older surveys to be inaccurate relative to today's surveys which employ lasers.
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Natural gas opponents thought, for the zillionth time last year, they had found a game changer in Dr. Tom Myers report indicating it was theoretically possible for fracturing to migrate thousands of feet upward through multiple layers of rock but new research indicates the Myers study essentially defies gravity, science and hydrogeology and seems to have been done to curry favor with the usual suspects. Read more at eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/curryin...-hydrogeology/19867/
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In recent conversations with other forum members, both on and off forums, I realized that I am not the only landowner where land is "magically" disappearing. Take my land issue. My father divided part of the old homestead between some of my brother's and me. After sixty years of our family paying taxes on X acres they come along and say "No you only have X minus Y acres" The funny thing is, the overall acreage did not shift to my neighbor. Maybe it was just imaginary acreage. Now we know that the state has an overall "total acreage" and each county has it's share which is dived up amongst the towns. Now while the resident's of this state try to survive through this moratorium; they are experiencing magically disappearing acreage; but this does not reduce the state's total. Now lets zoom, zoom ... zoom into the future and drilling comes to the state. Can there be a deal under the table where the state says "You (energy companies) are paying for X number of acres in that area; but we know it to contain X plus Y (all those magically disappeared acres) so you will pay us the difference and we will give you a deal on it." "Agreed?" ??? Something is going on? Now I understand that this is all hypothetical; BUT since it has happened to I don't know how many land owner's .... can anyone come up with a better theory of "why" after the big energy rush, this is happening. Maybe with all the secret land acquisition by investor groups, there will be a re-survey after the moratorium to get back the invisible Y acreage. I personally know where my Y acreage went .... falsified survey. After many years the mind finally caught the 'slight of math' trick that was performed on me. Any other land owner's out there that have been reduced in acreage? Please, respond so I can gather some hard data on just how much of this is really going on.
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Good news for everywhere BUT NY. www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11091 Remember to vote the boy wonder ...... out.
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Energy Day took place last week in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The event was organized by America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA), the Associated Petroleum Industries of PA (American Petroleum Institute, API), the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) and the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association (PIOGA). The event was attended by over 300 individuals and representatives of 13 different Chambers of Commerce. We will be highlighting information from the event in a series of posts. Read more at eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/energy-...ral-gas-usage/19774/
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Last week the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) held a public hearing for the proposed Mark West compressor station, slated for Smith Township in Washington County. The hearing filled with residents from neighboring communities – a large majority of whom supported the Mark West expansion. Read more at eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/washing...est-expansion/19757/
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Recent court decisions, which one hopes will soon be further appealed, strike another blow against both property rights and rational thinking in New York State, both of which have already been in very short supply. Well, the New York State’s Third Judicial Department has upheld the Dryden and Middlefield decisions, and our friends on the other side are doing some early crowing. It’s a disappointing but hardly unexpected decision, as readers of this blog know from observers who commented here. It’s not the end of the road, of course, but only a fool would think it’s good news. It’s exceedingly bad news for a state already ranked dead last in personal and economic freedom, according to researchers from George Mason University. And yet, one more property right may well be sacrificed at the altar of political correctness if this decision holds up on appeal to the state’s highest court. Nonetheless, one gains hope from the sloppy, and clearly political, nature of the decisions. There are two indicators of this that tell us most of what we need to know. eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/new-yor...l-correctness/19722/
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