Republican Party fusillade catches Western PA landowners by surprise - Shock and Awe!!

The entirety of the Republican Party has opened a full scale attack on PA landowners and royalty owners, but especially on those in Western PA.  This attack is called SB 259.  It will cost Pennsylvanians millions of dollars, money which will go straight into gas company coffers.  Here is a newspaper article explaining what has happened:

PA landowners come under sharp, unexpected attack!

SB 259 sits today on Governor Corbett's desk awaiting signature.  Contact him here:

Contact Corbett here - Tell him to veto SB 259!

If enough of us take action right now, this impending robbery can still be thwarted!!  But time is very, very short.  You must act now.  Tell Corbett to veto SB 259.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on July 2, 2013 at 3:07pm

Hasn't the Republican Party historically portrayed themselves as Pro-Rural America ?

Hasn't the Democratic Party always been viewed by Rural America as the Party of Wealth Re-Distribution in the form of new taxes ?

Where is Rural America's Mineral / Land Owner representation in the Utica Shale Gas / Oil Era ?

Thinking the answer is that there is no representation to be had for Rural America's Mineral / Land Owners at all.

Thinking that Rural America's Mineral / Land Owners are targets for both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

It's my opinion that both of the Political Parties that frame our Two-Party System have targeted Rural America's Mineral / Land Owners.  

I don't think Pennsylvania should feel all alone here - many similar goings on in Ohio from what I can see / make of things. 

Permalink Reply by LW on July 2, 2013 at 7:32pm

I don't expect much out of Corbett in the way of helping landowners even when it is something so wrong as this and his siding with the industry.   I hope I am wrong.

Permalink Reply by Carl Krebsbach on July 3, 2013 at 3:40pm

You are absolutely right.  The two-party illusion is just that.  In fact, they are just the right and left wings of the same bird of prey that is fleecing us regular folks.

Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on July 2, 2013 at 7:43pm
Good luck to Pennsylvania Utica Landowners.
Good luck to Ohio Utica Landowners.
Good luck to all Landowners Countrywide.
We need it.
Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on July 2, 2013 at 8:53pm
Seems to me that about all that can be done would
be for the landowners and landowner groups
to petition your Governor - via telephone
E-mail and letter.
Permalink Reply by Mark McGrail on July 2, 2013 at 9:26pm

I have read this and don't see it the same as you do.

What am I missing?

Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on July 2, 2013 at 9:47pm
I see losing the opportunity to negotiate
(or re-negotiate) a Utica class lease as
opposed to being included in a deficient
Pre-Utica class lease as unfair to the
landowners in this era of long horizontal
bore gas / oil well development.
In PA, OH, W. VA. or NY.
Permalink Reply by LW on July 2, 2013 at 10:17pm

Very unfair and they are trying to sneak it in as environmental protection. Ha!  Unreal. 

Permalink Reply by Mark McGrail on July 3, 2013 at 8:21am

Joseph,

I didn't read where re-negotiating  was prohibited.

Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on July 3, 2013 at 8:47am

Joseph is correct.  The bill would allow forced pooling, for purpose of horizontal drilling, of lands already leased for conventional drilling.  I speak here of "old leases".  

Beneath existing PA law, the gas companies must re-negotiate such old leases, at considerable expense to the gas companies, in order to obtain such pooling rights for horizontal drilling.  The new law forces Lessors to yield up said rights with no opportunity for re-negotiation.

This is all documented in the article, a link for which I posted in the OP.  Did you not read the article?

Permalink Reply by Mark McGrail on July 3, 2013 at 4:57pm

Frank,

Where does it say this in the bill?  What language are you seeing that I am not ?

Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on July 3, 2013 at 8:55am

 

The following link takes you to the news article that poster (Frank Walker) originally referenced:

http://triblive.com/business/headlines/4290179-74/drilling-gas-pool... 

That post and the article discuss the fact that after the Bill were signed into law by the Governor, and if the O&G Developer / lessee chose to not enter into a 're-negotiation' or 'negotiation' with the landowner, that such 're-negotiation' or 'negotiation' wouldn't have to occur.  Re-negotiation / Negotiation having been made moot by enactment / enforcement of the new law.

Don't you also take that meaning from reading the post and article ?

Why would any O&G Developer / lessee enter into a negotiation or re-negotiation that would be un-necessary by enforcement of a new law ?

Answer - they wouldn't.

 

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