GOP forcing fracking: "Personal freedoms are seldom on the radar when gas companies come to town."

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Corpmedia completely missed this hypocrisy re Bundy's GOP defenders. GOP governors in service to Koch Industries and other energy firms are rewriting land rules state by state to FORCE private landowners into fracking their lands.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/28/3145187/officials-ok-rule-to-force-fracking.html

Officials OK rule to force fracking on NC landowners

RALEIGH — North Carolina landowners would be forced to sell the natural gas under their homes and farms – whether they want to or not – under a fracking recommendation approved Wednesday that’s expected to be enacted by the state legislature this fall.

The proposal by a state study group endorses a rarely used 1945 law that’s never been tried here on the kind of scale that would be required for shale gas exploration, or fracking. Thousands of property owners could potentially be affected in the state’s gas-rich midsection in Lee, Moore and Chatham counties.

The recommendation, dealing with one of the most emotional fracking issues, bypasses the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission, which holds regular public hearings on protecting the public and safeguarding the environment, and goes to the legislature.

“We are talking about a for-profit industry taking away personal freedoms with the blessing of the government,” Therese Vick, a community activist with the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, told the Compulsory Pooling Study Group. “Personal freedoms are seldom on the radar when the gas companies come to town.”
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1. Some "persons" are more equal than others

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2. kicking up and .....

how odd that someone actually alerted on this news story.

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3. Somebody alerted? Was he/she removed?

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4. Don't know, but, if they alerted on THIS post then they must be Koch trolls.

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5. You must have a so called 'admirer'

meaning you are doing right in my book.

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8. heheh....

I know that song....

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6. this happened in NYS in 2005 with nary a peep of opposition

here is a good account of the story----> http://www.dcbureau.org/20101207775/natural-resources-news-service/marcellus-shale-the-real-price-of-compulsory-integration-in-new-york.html
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Two days later, the well water Todd and his family had relied on for 22 years suddenly turneddoes murky and smelly. So had the well water of at least seven other households in this stable, middle-class neighborhood just north of the Elmira-Corning Regional Airport. The residents suspected that their water problems were linked to the gas drilling, but state and local officials dismissed those suspicions.
Realizing that the burden of proving a connection was on their shoulders, Todd and the others started meeting regularly with an eye toward hiring an attorney and a water tester. Some members of the group, including the Moreys, had signed leases with the drilling company, Anschutz Exploration Corp. Several others, like Todd, had declined.

But the state’s compulsory integration statute cancels their right to refuse to deal with a gas well driller.

The legislation was a product of the Independent Oil and Gas Industry of New York, according to Christopher Denton, an Elmira attorney who has represented landowners in dozens of compulsory integration cases.

“This is IOGA’s statute,” Denton said of the industry trade group. “They drafted it, introduced it, got a sponsor for it and pushed it through with no legislative hearings whatsoever.”
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Compulsory Integration was originally designed to protect landowners from nearby oil/gas wells stealing from their "pooled" i.e. mobile resources. In NYS, Before CI there was a battle to see who could drill enough wells fast enough and close to property boundaries to literally suck oil/gas from underneath neighboring properties.

Regardless, Compulsory Integration should NOT be applied to frackworthy "tight" oil/gas shale/sand because in these formations the hydrocarbons do NOT move except in the fractures opened by fracking. As noted in the story above, the IOGA managed to use this to actually promote the 2005 NYS CI legislation as a consumer protection act!... and the politicians in the State Legislature, both Democrats and Republicans bought it hook line and sinker. THIS is one more example of vast quantities of money driving public policy in the wrong direction. AKA Democracy Corrosion.

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7. CI states vs non-CI states

Don't think however that stopping Compulsory Integration legislation in your state will stop fracking.

NYS has a Compulsory Integration rule and there have been NO horizontally fracked Marcellus wells! (yet...).

Pennsylvania doen NOT have Compulsory Integration rules and is well on the way to being ALL FRACKED UP...

ban fracking now. and re-regulate gas drilling industry waste so that it is not "by law" considered to be non-hazardous waste.

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9. Corpmedia is raking in tons of advertising cash from these energy firms. Newsrooms are controlled

by those making the adbuys.

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10. Couple receives $3 million fracking lawsuit

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/04/wise-county-gets-3-million-in-fracking-suit.html/

When this becomes the consequence of fracking the big companies just 'might' figure out how to make it so called safer. Until then, we keep informed & do what we can. Fracking is an environmental hazard & I do not see the benefits of it. Only the profits & I'm not gettin' any.