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Related: About this forumNo to ‘fracking’ doesn’t mean no - Landowner refusal can’t stop drilling
from The Columbus Dispatch Sunday July 29, 2012
Steve Neeley estimates that he has spent more than $500,000 over the past 12 years to build a country estate in southern Portage County.
When a Chesapeake Energy land man approached him months ago with an offer to lease the Utica shale mineral rights beneath his meticulously landscaped 9.5-acre property in eastern Ohio, Neeley declined. Thats when, Neeley says, the land man told him, Well just take it.
Neeley and 23 of his neighbors are the first group of Ohio landowners forced to take part in Utica-shale drilling under a seldom-used state law. The law lets companies add properties to large drilling units even if leases with landowners havent been obtained, to maximize access to deeply buried oil and gas.Even the state isnt immune from the law. The Chesapeake Energy drilling unit of 959 acres in Portage and Stark counties includes a 4-acre corner of Quail Hollow State Park northeast of Canton. That makes it the first state park in line for fracking.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources officials say the unitization law guarantees fair compensation, and that the properties of unwilling landowners wont be damaged.
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No to ‘fracking’ doesn’t mean no - Landowner refusal can’t stop drilling (Original Post)
limpyhobbler
Jul 2012
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riverbendviewgal
(4,255 posts)1. Disgusting
but the people voted in these congressman who are allowing this.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. +1
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,831 posts)2. I wonder if he can sue to stop them. I'd sure try...
Dirty bastards.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)4. K&R Please read the entire article.
We are going through this in PA, too. I am pretty sure the PA law is similar to the Ohio law about unwilling landowners being compensated. It is little consolation, but you cannot stop them. If they sign 65% of the acreage, they get to call the shots. And the refusal of one (or more) landowners will not halt or delay the drilling.
Our only hope right now is that there is a glut of natural gas and they have curtailed some of their operations.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)5. fucking scary.