It was MDN’s pleasure to attend a screening of the newly released Truthland movie this week at the Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin, New York. Truthland is a short film, about 34 minutes in length, that takes as its mission the debunking of Josh Fox’s well-known movie Gasland.

The star of Truthland is a Pennsylvania woman by the name of Shelly. She and her husband Phil and their children live on a farm in northeastern Pennsylvania—land that’s been in Phil’s family for the…

Is it true $15.00 a foot is all that is offered for laying the pipeline? Additional money for damages $5.00 a foot for a 20" line? We are being asked to sign for that now.

Let’s say, hypothetically, that a deep-pocketed organization was financially underwriting the bulk of activities associated with a campaign to stop oil and gas development in America, including organizing and orchestrating research projects designed to attack 65 years of history, science and experience with respect to the safe use of hydraulic fracturing.

Now let’s stop pretending and recognize that everything we’ve described above is, in fact, happening, and the organization…

WELL SITE SAFETY AND SECURITY IN PENNSYLVANIA     PART II  

By: Robert A. Young

Introduction

A cursory review of natural gas exploration and production in Bradford County Pennsylvania presently, ( June 2012), may give even casual observers the impression that such activity is slowing down on the local front.  Likewise the rhetoric…

John Williams tells how he came to know the truth about the gas industry.

"My first experience with a natural gas company goes back to between 2005 and 2006. A landman approached me about signing a lease. I looked at what he was proposing, which, at first, sounded quite interesting. But, after reading over the lease, I decided it wasn’t for me. I was then again approached in 2007 with leasing at a higher price. This is when I thought it was time to do a little more research on what…

Like many who grew up in the Upper Delaware River valley, the mere mention of Gasland has grated on me like Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem. It’s not just the facts he got wrong or the truth he distorted. You expect that sort of thing from Josh Fox and it didn’t take long for Energy In Depth and several others to correct the record on the flaming Colorado faucet, Dunkard Creek and the rain rot present on some of the animals pictured. No, what was so offensive was the sheer…

Energy is all around us. It powers everything from iPads to eye exams, from air conditioners to automobiles. Yet energy production, especially natural gas production, is maligned by environmentalists and the media as dirty, unsustainable, and bad for the environment.

It's time to counter this rhetoric with stories about the positive values of energy production.

We want you to submit 1-minute (or shorter) clips of what…

The following meetings are scheduled to discuss information on Utica Shale Drilling and to SIGN-UP POTENTIAL MEMBERS FOR THE GROUP.

**OUR GROUP CANNOT MARKET YOUR ACREAGE WITHOUT AN ENGAGEMENT LETTER BEING SIGNED

JUNE 5, 2012, 6 PM

WESTWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH

2395 EAST PIKE

ZANESVILLE, OHIO 43701

JUNE 12, 2012, 6 PM

JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL

13115 JOHN GLENN SCHOOL RD.

NEW CONCORD, OHIO

JUNE…

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I have a 36 acre assigned lease in a producing shallow well in Robertsville, Ohio.  I do not own the mineral rights, but this lease will never be permitted to elapse.  Does any one know a value  or a company that would be interested in this 12.5% lease.  When the deep is eventually drilled there, the income should be very high.  Thanks

I am looking for an oil company to sign with in Belmont county, can any one help me out?

The Trend Is Comparing Utica To Eagle Ford And Showing A New Future Trend Of The Utica $25-$35k Per Acre!.. What Is your Your Opinion and Or Factual Information On This?

I thought this might be interesting to see. Saudi Arabia we can all agree has oil galore, with wells galore, correct? The wells have been there for 80 years or better? We can agree that water would be of a higher concern there than here in Ohio or close neighboring states?

Well here is a official Saudi web site to look at when it come to water, where do you see Oil and Gas development in this?  …

GREAT PLAINS OILFIELD RENTALS

Landowner Meeting about Oil & Gas Leasing

1:00 pm, Saturday May 19th, 2012

Log Cabin Building

Tyler County Fairgrounds

outside Middlebourne, WV on Route 18

Sponsored by JRM…

Has anybody with a 5 yr. lease and an optional  5 yr. extension , gotten any more bonus money for the 5 yr. extension.  130 acres, Lycoming co. McIntyre twp. Pa.  Also, how can I found out who is in my 640 acre unit?  Thanks Bob

can anyone give a price for an access road to get equipment to a pipeline row? examples bulldozers &boring machines

This blog is written and directed towards the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

To drill or not to drill - that is the question.

        As of…

I was recently approached by CHK to put a water line through my property that would service a well on my property and others.  Anybody have any experience with water right of way agreements?