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Permalink Reply by Mike Strong on September 15, 2011 at 10:25pm

mohicanbasin@frontier.com

 

Join one of the landowner groups.  Bob Rea spoke tonight in Knox county.  He has lead landowners in Noble and Carrol counties.  Got a really good lease for the landowners.  The lease they put together is one of the best for landowners I have seen.  The group has a lawyer that is experienced in Oil/Gas leases.   There is great power in numbers.  One key is to have a group that is bound together.

 

===here is last weeks email to the group

Mohican Basin Landowners Update September 5^th 2011

Fellow MBLA members:

Upcoming events :

September 13, 2011, there will be a public meeting  in Kidron at the Kidron Auction Yards in the Sprunger Building at 7:00 pm. Bob Rea will be the featured speaker and Clark and Carl will have presentations also.

September 15^th, 2011, there will be a public meeting at the Pike Township Hall, Knox County, located on Earnest Road near Liberty Road, at 6:30 pm. Carl, Clark, and Bob Rea will present topics of interest.

If you know of landowners who have not had the opportunity to attend one of the events, please make them aware. When we take the effort to plan, organize and hold these events, we want to have good attendance  so that our message reaches as many landowners as possible. 

On Wednesday, 31 August, the executive committee met with Attorney Tom Gilman concerning organizational matters. Later we convened for a brief meeting  at the Loudonville Farmers Equity boardroom. We discussed several recent events and how to respond to them. Fred reported that as of the last tally there are over 750 members with nearly 87,000 acres. The Committee, after reviewing our eight month long enrollment campaign, decided to finalize new enrollment on December 1, 2011. We will advertize this decision and hold more enrollment opportunities before December 1 in order to accommodate additional landowners. As you know, obtaining some of the information needed for enrollment as well as the decision process  requires some research and effort and sufficient time will be allowed by this December 1 deadline.  

Clark and Carl traveled to Columbus on Tuesday 30 August and met with our legal counsel about recent events with landowners holding the leases with Columbia Gas. We have taken steps to counter what we feel is unauthorized activity on one of our members’ land. While there is a huge amount of work to do in this matter, we were encouraged by the attitude and comments of our counsel. Lessors to Columbia Gas should be aware of this alleged encroachment and be extremely concerned that there will be additional well staking and plans on leases that do not have sufficient terms for this activity. MBLA leaders need to be notified of any activity by operators on their property.

Clark invested most of his time this past week with MBLA activities. In addition to Tuesday and Wednesday’s events,Thursday found him occupied with various MBLA affairs the whole day. On Friday morning Clark and Matt Gress visited with Fred Myers to plan the Kidron meeting. Friday afternoon Clark joined with Bob Hunter from the Killbuck Valley Landowners Association to tape a radio broadcast for the Millersburg station.  Saturday he delivered applications and office equipment and made plans for distribution of MBLA information at the Wayne County Fair. I want to extend our gratitude to Clark and all the volunteers for their time and excellent capabilities on behalf of our landowners.  

Please continue to encourage landowners who have not taken the time to make themselves aware of MBLA and its objectives of protecting our land and water resources and maximizing the economic benefits to our citizens. These objectives can only be obtained by  implementing strong landowners friendly leases that make very clear the responsibilities of resource developers. The oil and gas below our land is our property and we need to be very diligent about marketing it and the methods employed in order to recover this asset. You and I, as members of MBLA, need support from as many landowners as possible to accomplish our goals.

I will close with this quote from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

We have opportunity staring us in the face. Let’s get on with it.

Carl

Take the challenge to print this and give copies to at least two landowners who are not members this week!    

Permalink Reply by time will tell on September 15, 2011 at 11:00pm

any idea's of meetings in belmont co. Exxon is having meetings in wheeling .

Permalink Reply by Michael Lawrence on October 12, 2011 at 8:13am

the pleasent view management contract and wishgard are very similiar.... not the same company but some of the same participants..  different names represent different principals...  no tricks...

Permalink Reply by 09bp5t05myjl3 on October 12, 2011 at 1:07pm

ROFLMAO/ I Can't wipe off the Stupid you think we have painted on our Foreheads

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