Received my latest Farm Bureau News today. These people should run for president, they know everything about everything. Experts on everything O&G..Sounds like they have been coached by the best O&G could buy. Anyone reading this issue would swear the writers were employees of O&G not the Farm Bureau..The Forced Pooling issue is coming under fire again. Because existing laws do not protect mineral owners, and proposed legislation does not offer still enough protection. We need even better protection when trying to negotiate with O&G. I do not know of one story that I ever read concerning a property owner that had been forced to sell a piece of property, or a right of way,or water rights, so that a company, or township, or state, or government agency, could build, demolish, cross over, change, existing property, that benefitted the property owner. The property owner ALWAYS loses. That is why it is called FORCED. If they were required to negotiate a fair agreement with the owner it could no longer be called FORCED. An improvement to a seriously lacking current law is not always enough. No matter what the O&G told the WVFB. When others negotiate for you, you lose. Only when you negotiate for yourself do you have a chance. Joe