Some of you are in areas that have not yet seen very much attention. I started the Licking / Muskingum County Group. I present a overview of the meeting I attended tonight and what I would like to see in the future as a meeting any input would be appreciated. I do believe a two hour meeting is hardly enough time to discuss millions of dollars. 

 Well got home and the DSL was working hmm ? So I went to the meeting tonight 16 Feb 2012 6PM at Licking Valley High School. The group representing itself was G&G out of Zanesville, Ohio. There appeared to be about 100 people there at this meeting. So what did I think?

  First of all thanks to the Mayor of Hanover who I believed was the main force in getting the meeting arraigned. The attendees were very cordial and were respectful in keeping order throughout the meeting. 

 My big complaint is that I would like to see a better formulated meeting where several groups would all participate. A two hour meeting is not enough time to really realize how important a landowner is. The possibility to  gain a chance at hundreds of thousands of dollars or more is worth more than two hours.  There are at the present time possibly four groups that might overlap to some degree.

 In alpabetical order.

1. Energy In  Depth Utica

2. Graham & Graham

3. South West Coshocton Land Owners Association

4. Virtual Energy

  I think it would be advantageous that all the groups be welcome to a all day event. The reason is that a two hour meeting is not enough time to have some individuals even understand what this is about. To many in the area with 5 or 10 acres think the oil talk is for big landowners which is far from the truth. 

  A all day event would allow for a individual to ask more questions than possible with only a two hour meeting.  I myself would like a break down presented.

 1. Have perhaps a drilling company rep in a class room explaining the horizontal drilling process with perhaps a explanation of how they know where they are really drilling. Discovery Channel gave a very brief shot of this but no explanation. Perhaps a Drill bit and the tech people to explain how they can steer it.

 2. Have some one from say Producers or Halliburton give a presentation  in another room and video of a frack operation certainly they should have some materials for static display perhaps even bring in a pump unit to show.

 3. Have separate rooms available for the different groups mentioned so that they can meet perspective members to their group and introduce themselves and their group goal and benefits they offer.

 4. We have heard the Ohio Attorney General state that he wants to be involved , well your welcome too! Bring some consumer contract attorney in from you office with some training in Oil and gas leasing for landowners to ask questions about leases.

 5. Have a larger room for a informal discussion of question and answers that landowners might ask so these questions might be addressed by the individuals present that might have expertise in that field. We might as well drill for all the answers we can.

 6. Have the PTA or athletic boosters arrange for serving food and drink as a fund raiser for the school.

    We have a lot of time left. They have spent billions already in leases and in some cases with natural gas prices being so low they will have to shift assets to acquire more lease money and drilling funds for this project. 

  We are only beginning people. Here's a laugh, there were about 100 people there with only about 6 individuals very softly saying we want what you 100 people have. If we can't get it from you, Big Oil will have to work for it!

 United We Stand has meaning. Billy