Ritchie County, WV

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Any updates on activity in Clay District?

We have not signed a lease but have been in communication with Hawkeye Research. Any intel would be appreciated.

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    maag man

    get ahold of Tom badget or paul reese... hawkeye is history.. those two guys are paying now.. 

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      Rodney T Hytonen

      1.) This is NOT "the hydraulic fracing, that has occurred for the last 50-60 years"
      That was not TODAY's chemical "slickwater" fracturing, done by poisoning billions of gallons of water PERMANENTLY, and then leaving most of that poison under the ground - 6-8 million gallons, per multiple frack, of each well, 10-12 wells per pad, 6-12 two-mile horizontal bores per well.
      That's a LOT of poison, even at 1% BTEXs (legally class 1 carcinogens.) Then there's the highly concentrated 10% (national total over a trillion gal./yr.! http://www.minnpost.com/earth-journal/2014/02/frackings-impacts-wat... ) that's left in surface ponds to evaporate those BTEX (+heavy metals, arsenic and NORMs, etc.)fumes into the air for us to breathe - and we can't escape it! 24/7, night and day.
      Then there's the immense scale of these operations, industrializing rural areas and completely dwarfing towns and residential areas for many miles, with huge truck traffic and destruction of roads and infrstructure (cf. again, rt 18S frm 50. IMPASSABLE and destroys your car, while miles of fumes kill livestock, wildlife-carcinogenic deer meat and fish- and pets, and give kids and seniors nosebleeds and eventual cancer.)
      THAT's what your thirty pieces of silver (or at least the "promise" of it, good luck collecting) are doing, to your descendants' (and your neighbors') land and water - and frgetever grwing edible food in those millions of spoiled miles of land. A test in the GW Nat'l Forest proved nothing will grow or live anywhere frack fluid has been.

      2.) You asked. Sources are given by the publishers (unlike industry propaganda, which comes only from THEIR OWN DATA which they present to the gov't, which then uses them in "studies"):
      And "Fracking " I (and most people since 2004, including the Pennsboro City Council and Mayor,who BANNED it when it started in Washington County PA and Bush/Cheney's EPA refused to protect us from it,) use, as a general term for ALL ACTIVITIES involved in gas drillng today.
      The industry lies by limiting "studies" to the actual moment a well is fracked - even though thousands of gallons of chemicals have been spilled in storage, multiple transfers(including highly concentrated chemicals,) and transport; and in "produced water" open "evaporation" storage in vast cancer ponds; have widely poisoned the land, ground water, and even the air we have to breathe..
      http://www.earthworksaction.org/media/detail/scientists_fracking_po...
      http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/08/06/study-top-fracking-stat...
      http://www.vox.com/cards/fracking/does-fracking-pollute-the-water-a...
      http://rt.com/usa/194620-california-aquifers-fracking-contamination/
      http://www.minnpost.com/earth-journal/2014/08/frackings-threat-drin...
      http://mediarelations.cornell.edu/2014/06/25/fracking-flowback-coul...
      http://grist.org/list/scientists-can-now-see-frackers-fingerprints-...

      BTW- They can;t "just do it anyway even if you don't take their money"

      -Leaving poison under your land  (ie fracking) is "Damage" and therefore "Actionable Trespass" in WV.  http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=c7e610ff-d7d1-4cbc-b1...

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        Rodney T Hytonen

        I can't WAIT for them to try going under our land!
        Meet the new owner of Antero.