All things pertaining to Middlesex Twp gas drilling activities or lack thereof.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/a-shale-economy-raises-home-values-dummy/

It's funny that the above article appeared in my email because I read on a statement from an anti-fracker that banks are not giving out home equity loans to any one with a gas lease.   Has anyone else heard this?

Hey Cat,

What I have heard is that in this hot Marcellus area if you are transferring the gas rights along with the property, leased or not, people are asking a premium for that. I have never heard of the banks turning down anyone because of a lease.

Now that is just my very "hearsay" take on it. 

Ask this anti-fracker to provide some actual documentation on a refusal and see what the answer is.

Cheers

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_218/fracking-boom-gives-ba...

Here is one article I found about bank mortgages. 

This is one more example of anti-fracers lying about the industry. I have two mortgages on two properties, one in PA and one in NY. In both situations the bank knew I was purchasing for oil and gas investment purposes and two different banks gave me the loans. So this is a MYTH, the facts do not line up with the hysteria they peddle.

Thank you David.  It seems that there is a lot of false accusations to fulfill their agenda.  

Very good. Thanks for comment, David.

In the Trib Live

ACLU asks Butler County developer to drop fracking-related lawsuitBy Rick Wills Staff Reporter 
Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 5:03 p.m.
Updated 4 minutes ago

 
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The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday it sent a letter to a Butler County developer asking him and other residents to drop a lawsuit against five Middlesex residents and two nonprofits.

The ACLU contends the suit by the developer is the first SLAPP, or strategic lawsuit against public participation, it has found related to fracking in Pennsylvania.

Ryan Dewey, of Dewey Homes & Investment Properties, the developer, did not return calls.

A SLAPP lawsuit is a legal tactic intended to block constitutionally protected activities such as speaking at public meetings and filing legal challenges to oppose commercial activity, said Vic Walczak, director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania and one of the defendants' attorneys.

The lawsuit the ACLU is criticizing was filed in June by 13 property owners against two environmental groups and five Middlesex residents who challenged the township's zoning ordinances.

“What they are complaining about is that opponents engaged in protected political activities. If you can be sued for that, free speech is not a constitutional right,” Walczak said.

The plaintiffs collectively own more than 440 acres of land. All had leases with either Rex Energy, Range Resources or Dale Property Service LP.

Dewey has said the case is based on the fact that drilling is legal in Pennsylvania.

Last year, defendants in the lawsuit challenged Middlesex supervisors' approval of zoning that allowed drilling in 90 percent of the township and a drilling permit issued to Rex for a site off Denny Road, owned by Bob and Kim Geyer, who live in adjacent Adams.

In May, the township's zoning hearing board upheld the supervisors' decision, as well as the permit.

Opponents are appealing.

"said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper.  “Pennsylvania communities are already suffering at the hands of fracking and drilling operations;"

Pretty strong statement. Sure would like to hear some concrete evidence of the "suffering".

Good point.   Plus this statement

The defendants are not anti-fracking activists, Walczak said, but are in fact parents with young families who are concerned about the construction of a gas well pad by a unit of Rex Energy less than a mile from a school in the town of Mars. “They are really worried because this drilling is so close to the school, and if there’s an accident there is no way you are going to be able to evacuate these kids.

“Most of them are saying, ‘We don’t care if you frack. We just don’t want it within two miles of a school, which based on our research is the minimum you need if there’s going to be some kind of a problem,’” Walczak said. “The only thing that our clients did was take steps to protect their children, and what do they get for their trouble? They get sued.”

Rex planned on drilling during the summer.  They would have been done before school started.  These aricles make it sound like every Mars parent doesn't want this.  That is not true.  They want to be hero's and say look at me I saved the 3200 children that attend Mars.  

It is not in the town of Mars either which is stated in that article. This article makes it sound like the well pad is right in the middle of the town.

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