60 MINUTES TO AIR "SHALEIONAIRES"

While some complain that extracting natural gas from shale rock is tainting their water supply, others who have allowed drilling on their property are getting wealthy and becoming "shaleionaires." Lesley Stahl reports, Sunday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.



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Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on November 12, 2010 at 5:09am
Would be nice to see someone focusing on the positives of this for once!
Permalink Reply by Brenda Rezvan on November 18, 2010 at 7:15pm
What are the positives from your point of view?
Permalink Reply by Carol on November 15, 2010 at 2:42am
Unfortunately, the title of this segment on 60 Minutes was misleading - the reporter talks to two men who have made money and then the rest of the time was spent on Dimock and other negative stories. I was disappointed. I expected a more positive news report but I should have known better.
Permalink Reply by I wanna be a SHALEIONAIRE too! on November 17, 2010 at 3:52pm
Go Dimock!
Permalink Reply by Elnathan Cory on November 15, 2010 at 4:03am
Carol, I agree with you 100%........ another negative focus. I hope I become one of the shaleionairs of Pennsylvania. We have a chance to get off of the arab oil addiction and become energy independent. The environmentalist should applaud this move. I did take some good from this when the head of the Sierra Club implied he wasn't against this as long as this was done with more oversight.
Permalink Reply by I wanna be a SHALEIONAIRE too! on November 17, 2010 at 3:53pm
I hope you get what DIMOCK GOT TOO! greedy people!
Permalink Reply by Robin Fehrenbach Scala on November 18, 2010 at 10:13pm
I'm quite sure you have no idea WHAT Dimock got.
If you are relying on Gasland and other sources of garbage for your information, I can tell you for a FACT that you don't know.
The majority of DIMOCK well owners are very happy with what they have and are getting. SO, thank you for that...I hope to enjoy the exact same thing.
Permalink Reply by matthew h mcsparren on November 19, 2010 at 12:56am
thank you for pointing out how the media has used the movie,gasland, and the 60 minute report to show highligths of what can go wrong in the gas drilling industry.even though several of the so called facts have been proven false,(if not close to lies) the bias media does not report when the gas industry responds to and proves the media reports to be falsehoods. althogh i now live at the other end of the state, i try to follow area events on wensdays with the online version of the tunkhannock new age. i have this intrest in the area, having lived at lake carey 1968 to 1971 as a teenager.
Permalink Reply by Carol on November 15, 2010 at 4:19am
Elnathan,
I'm hoping to become a PA shaleionaire too - that may take a few years though because I don't own much acreage but it is still possible.
I would love to have any opportunity to appear on radio or tv to promote the Marcellus Shale Drilling.
Permalink Reply by Elnathan Cory on November 15, 2010 at 6:21am
Carol,
I think the situation in Pennsylvania is very good for this to turn around the economy in a huge way. I can see this becoming one of the richest "states" in the world. It all depends on how we Pennsylvanians handle the wealth. When I look over the border to west Virginia and its vast coal riches I see a state that dropped the ball except for the huge energy companies that control all the mineral rights. The poor people of that state sold out more than a century ago to land men that ripped the future right out of their hands. We need to realize what we have! A lot of people are pleased that the state has gone republican recently but beware of the leanings of that party toward big business. We can have our cake and eat it too! The leases that we sign are so important! We also need an infrastructure to get this gas to market and a market that needs what we have. The technology is available. In my dream I am driving a natural gas powered car, heat and cool my home with natural gas and generate my electicity with it also. Energy=$

Elnathan
Permalink Reply by Brenda Rezvan on November 16, 2010 at 7:51am
Bravo for your comment Elnathan. West Virginia is the perfect example, and even that state has "wised up" by putting moratoriums in place against mountaintop removal. (Another "new technology"--Lesley Stahl should have noted that "fracking" is not new but has been around since the 1940's, while "directional drilling has been around since the 1920's). West Virginia has finally realized what the key is to real, far reaching, long term prosperity--heritage tourism--which is destroyed in the present and the future by mountaintop removal. Likewise in northern Pennsylvania, it is so important not to rush this process. There's enough potential money for everyone, but all the money in the world won't buy back the beautiful land or aquifers that can be damaged by hasty drilling. And, all the natural gas extraction in the world won't end our dependence upon "foreign oil" until states allow sales of vehicles that run on natural gas.
Permalink Reply by I wanna be a SHALEIONAIRE too! on November 17, 2010 at 3:54pm
I dought it

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