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"well, do report sooner....for you are leaving us hanging on this one.  sure hope you are finding out things that HELP you and have good legal counsel.  be careful....watch your back big time....and get to the bottom of all of this. …"

"mark, as someone in the industry, ...hmmmm, i guess no matter how i ask this it puts you on the spot...................anyway to say whether or not you see/know of a lot of subterfuge with companies running over the land owners?  or are we…"

"It sounds like Wellsboro is just 'joining the crowd'....Troy and Towanda have been impossible with traffic for two or three years now.  It DOES sound didly compared to large cities, but IS a huge difference in Bradford county and in…"

"in penna one's acres do not have to be contiguous to be considered as one parcel by the gas leases.  if they contract for part of your property it includes other places you own in terms of agreements, amt of royalties, etc..  perhaps…"

"very interesting viewpoint.....................wow"

"you are so absolutely right.  and today that is the obvious/logical thing to do.  however, in my 'defense', i had just moved here in 2007 and was stunned with the seismic testing request, first of all.  i truly thought this…"

"the whole tax/fee issue has only recently been taken up to actually implement; until now this has been rejected completely by the governor.  yes, you are right, 'things' keep changing."

"jim, my lease with chesapeake clearly states that all royalties will be paid after all fees, taxes, production costs are taken out.  clearly. this was all cleared up front by a lawyer touted as being an 'expert' at that time on the…"

"thanks for all of this, dan. i have been a sidelines observer, partly due to being a 'flatlander' here....someone who has moved here to the 'endless mountains' rather than someone who is a 'native'.  let's see…"

"you have no idea, drill baby, how resistant the people here are to ANY government involvement in ANYTHING................no zoning, no regs, no 'interfering' in anyway to one's right to do what one wants with one's own…"

"this is good to know, utica....thanks for the follow up.  there were other concerns in silt, as far as i know, too, and 'silt' just happens to be a name that stuck as there were other places in colorado that had…"

"there are two 'ponds' near me now....each within a mile of me....one is maybe three years now or close to it, the other over a year.  these were two of the newer ones that i know about, but many others were built before that. …"

"actually, you are wrong.  today's scientific american said the company that did it has acknowledged that the i think 3pt tremors were from fracking...but he didn't think any more there."

"burning wood introduces many toxic and irritating particles into the air via the smoke from wood stoves and especially outdoor wood burning boilers..............so this is not the answer, either.  i do not know about pellets; i do know there…"

"i  look upon some of the older information for it's value as to what happens down the road.......yes, you say the tech is changing...and i hope is truly safer...but those people were also told that the technology was up to date and…"