One group of
landowners who wish to exploit the gas/oil reserves beneath their property are
being prevented from doing so by “environmentalists” who, as always, know best
what’s good for other folks, and tell them so.
Hess Corp. and
Newfield Exploration Co. sent a letter to landowners that notified them their
leases are no longer in effect, according to the Northern Wayne Property Owners
Alliance, which negotiated a master lease on behalf of more than 1,300 families
and businesses. Two years after the initial leasing agreements were signed in
2008, the DRBC put a “moratorium” into effect, resulting in what amounts to a
ban on fracking in those several PA counties near the river, including Wayne.
The landowners now stand to lose the $187 million second phase payments.
“Extreme green”
staffers of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) are purposely
delaying adoption of gas drilling regulations, the head of a Pennsylvania
property owners’ group said Tuesday, after the producers declined to renew a
multi-million dollar lease agreement for the PA region’s Marcellus Shale
acreage.
“The commission
is allowing itself to be held hostage by the media and an emotion-driven,
anti-drilling community made up mostly of people from outside our region and by
activist staffers within the DRBC who are exercising their personal biases,”
Bob Rutledge, executive director of the Northern Wayne Property Owners
Alliance, said in a letter to the DRBC…..To Read More……
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