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Permalink Reply by Oil and Gas nightmare on June 19, 2011 at 12:48am

Dude do people like this understand thats this is a PRO drilling blog..hence GO marcellus shale...paul... I am sorry for you brother you have picked the wrong site to b**ch on....you need to go to treehugger.com....hahahha sorry I couldnt help it!

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 3, 2011 at 4:12pm

Every year since my husband and I moved to PA from Florida (41 years now) we have heard of over weight trucks on the roads. You can't blame the drillers as being the only ones in violation. Many overweight trucks are hauling coal and timber etc.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 3, 2011 at 4:20pm

Bonding of a roads costs the company $12,000 per miles used. It is not cheap and it is in their best interest to not destroy the road.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on June 3, 2011 at 4:58pm

Paul,

I notice that in your comprehensive online research into this matter, you conspicuously seem to be missing all of the articles showing where the gas companies are putting HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO REPAVING THE ROADS THEY ARE IMPACTING TO A MUCH MUCH BETTER CONDITION THAN THEY WERE BEFORE. 

I've heard somewhere from someone that you're not supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth, but  I've never heard of wanting to ban them from operating on already crumbling township roads when said gift horse is back to fix them lickity-split to a much better condition in most cases.  Also, if you want to converse in this forum, perhaps you should actually engage those offering you REAL anecdotal evidence instead of dismissing it since it doesn't agree with your flimsy road bike rims.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on June 3, 2011 at 5:17pm

Mike Knapp: I've shared current photos of roads in Greene county and I've quoted newspaper stories about similar issues in nearby counties.  You mention hundreds of millions of dollars spent on road repair but you didn't give us a newspaper story or any other evidence to back up your statement.  I don't think putting a sentence in all caps makes it true or convincing, do you?

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Permalink Reply by mark ayers on June 3, 2011 at 5:32pm

PennDOT Deputy Secretary Scott Christie doesn't dispute the $200 million figure.

Read more: Natural gas drillers' damage to roads debated - Pittsburgh Tribune-... http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_715701.html#i... 

 

I love it when somebody from the the city tries to tell us bumpkins to protect our environment when they themselves have completely eliminated theirs..........

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Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on June 3, 2011 at 6:06pm

It's also worth noting that Marcellus shale related activities have contributed many many millions of dollars in fuel tax, which are SUPPOSED to go to repairing road infrastructure.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Walters on June 5, 2011 at 8:43am

That may be the very reason that a lot of us see the protection aspect of the land above the exploitation of her . . .

 

also I doubt anybody is against this slick water fracing as much as for doing it under strict observation via the clean water act signed into being by Nixon and pushed aside by Bush & Chaney. 

 

I am against drilling completely until the gas companies get straight with us.. ... quit dragging their feet and QUIT! using this American Independence line of BS,  and quit negotiating with you bumpkins (your word) like they were used car dealers and you guys were a group of reservation Indians. Right now they stand to make zillions with YOUR gas and are bottom lining the land owner at every opportunity . . .

 

what I don't get is why you all are singing praises to the man who is slamming your backside so bad when this is all over you won't be sitting down for weeks. Is this a company site?

 

Yeah, us anti folks are really dummies . . . 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 5, 2011 at 10:15am

I want our resources

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Permalink Reply by Jim Walters on June 5, 2011 at 11:44am

you already HAVE them (resources). . . it's the gas companies who NEED what you already are in possession of.. . . . .. and you all should be negotiating from that position.

 

Man, you people got it all backwards. I have a neighbor up the hill who got maybe a hundred dollars an acre to lease his property . . . another one got a thousand . . .

negotiation doesn't mean that you just beg or hold out for THEIR best offer.....

 Has anybody even checked into these guys profit margins? I know big oil made multi billions profit this last quarter . . . You all want to make money?

You have to unite and turn the tables on this whole process. . . . 

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 5, 2011 at 2:05pm

Well most of what I typed did not post. So here goes. I want our resources to be used here and for the betterment of the country. I do not think we should be selling our natural resources to foreign countries. I don't see anything wrong is selling the products to other countries if the will even the trade deficit.

Don't sell us "bumpkins" short many of us have Masters degrees and PhD's. We just choose to live in the country.

We are a big family that can fight among ourselves but strangers need to keep out of our business.

We don't go into the cities and burbs to tell you how to live. Most of us out here use fewer of the resources that are here now then those that live close to the cities.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Rupert on June 5, 2011 at 2:48pm

@ Kathleen...Don't know you...but like you...straightforward, honest, and passionate...and awefully well spoken for a, "bumpkin"! Take care and good luck!

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