Just signed up with a landowners group to represent the group for the best deal.

As they explained, they will present to the gas companies interested and see

what offers they get.

The only connection that they have is a 15% cut of the landowners $....nothing

else...They will get the group together for a question/answer session, and get

a contract and go from there.

They are optomistic for $3800.00 an acre over 5 years and whatever for royalties.

I have been to many meetings concerning companies trying to do business in NYS. This man, (hang) has popped up with his data, telling tax payers and communities that this industry is a "bad" idea and will contaminate water, even cause cancer in some cases. He shows his "hotspots" of contamination, then the fear is on! He has costed villages and taxpayers money to check on his "data". Most is bogus! Why is this happening? I realize there IS freedom of speech here in this nation, but- to…

I brought up this subject recently in the Tioga County, Pa. forum, but I feel I should raise the issue to a wider audience. As I am informed, there seems to be no law in Pennsylvania limiting the size of a unit or pool around a given well. The assumption is that the unit will be around the size of a section - 640 acres- a square mile. Some units are a little bigger or smaller, depending on the geography of the actual drilling of the well's horizontal leg. If unit size is limited in a given…

Penn State Extension and the Butler County Community College are hosting a Marcellus Shale Education Program.

Important information:

Where: Butler County Community College; Succop Theater

Date: Monday Febuary 22, 2010

Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Speakers:

Ross Pifer - Legal

Craig Lobins - PA DEP Oil and Gas

Scott Weikert -…