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Category Archives: “Forced pooling”
NY State & Compulsory integration: originally intended to compensate landowners, it forces people to sign gas leases…
Posted in "Forced pooling", "use by right", Compulsory integration, Fracking, Gas Drilling, Gas Lobby, Legislation, Lobbying, Marcellus Shale, Moratorium NY State, New York State, Special interests, Sullivan County, Toxicity
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Tagged Compulsory integration, Fracking, hydraulic fracturing. Marcellus Shale, natural gas, New York State, Sullivan County
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PA: “Pooling” for gas irks county residents
Posted in "Forced pooling", Fracking, Gas Drilling, Gas Lobby, Legislation, Lobbying, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, Politics, Special interests
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PA: The “natural” gas industry works hard at crafting again its own rules… Less taxes, less oversight… & the right to force residents and municipalities to accept drilling against their will
A trade group wants state officials to reinforce their authority over natural-gas drilling operations, force some reluctant landowners to sell their gas and tax new wells at a low rate during years when they’re at their costliest but also producing the most gas.
Those are some of the legislative and regulatory priorities that the Cecil-based Marcellus Shale Coalition outlines in an internal policy document obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other media.
The coalition acknowledged the document, marked “draft confidential,” but said many of the proposals had been on its website — http://www.marcelluscoalition.org — since spring.
The document says drilling should be a use by right in all zoning districts, even as Pittsburgh and other municipalities have proposed bans or zoning restrictions. It also says the state should encourage natural gas consumption and oppose anti-drilling arguments that “are not logically or scientifically based.”
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Forced Pooling in PA: Gas Industry Makes Its Own Rules
The natural gas industry is asking legislators to allow them to take gas from Marcellus Shale under certain properties without a lease and against the owner’s wishes when the owner has neighbors who’ve agreed to drilling.
That’s how opponents see a provision, which they call “forced pooling,” about to be proposed in the state House of Representatives. Continue reading →
Posted in "Forced pooling", "use by right", Delaware River Basin, Energy, Fracking, Gas Drilling, Gas Lobby, Hydraulic Fracturing, Lobbying, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania
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Tagged "Forced pooling", energy, Fracking, Gas Drilling, gas lobby, hydraulic fracturing, Hydrolic Fracturing, Marcellus Shale, PA, pennsylvania
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