Thoughts Behind Leasing State Lands

The question of whether or not to lease Pennsylvania state-owned land and the minerals beneath it for natural gas development is a debate we have seen crop up time and again. Notwithstanding this, decisions by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and others to lease their lands, have met with little opposition as most of those individuals residing in the Marcellus Shale region are in support of development. I recently attended a presentation at Lycoming College by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) where they explained their rationale behind leasing the land they are commissioned to “protect, conserve, and enhance” at Rose Valley Lake in Lycoming County and what this will mean for future projects and operations.

The question of whether or not to lease the PFBC land, was one executive director John Arway felt germaine to the commission’s role to conserve–or make wise decisions about how to best use the land to everyone’s benefit.

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Permalink Reply by gary smith on June 8, 2012 at 3:01pm

back in the mid ninties, when the government shut down all the logging in the allegheny forest, because they found ONE indiana bat, a quote from a dcnr operative put the game commission on notice,the quote was 'we can't have a bunch of rednecks having control of 6 billion dollars of oil,gas and timber rights'.  meaning the land we hunters bought with our licence fees.its a hundred billion now  the people need to keep the dcnr's hands off the pa. game commission lands. the dcnr may as well be lisa jacksons epa.

Permalink Reply by paleface on June 8, 2012 at 3:48pm

 I've read the game commision gas leases, the deer,bears and all the other animals of the forrest have  better lease's than we do.If they are alloud to put a pad on game lands in alot of lease's they have to drill under it from ajoining property but if they do put a pad on game lands it has to be replanted with apple tree's and deer clover various types and lots more.  

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