Community | December 08, 2010 | 18 comments

Homeowner forced to allow Natural gas industry drills on his land, says tap water turned brown after drilling started.

source: http://dcbureau.org/201012071284/Natural-Resources-News-Service/marcellus-shale-the-real-pri...

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The natural gas industry made Joe Todd an offer he couldn’t refuse.

He told them no, but New York State’s industry-drafted 2005 “compulsory integration” law made resistance pointless.

Todd had turned away a landman who tried last year to convince him to lease his property to a Denver-based gas driller. Then he received an official letter in January that said he had to surrender his subterranean property rights for a financial stake in the same Colorado driller’s new well operation less than a mile from his home in Big Flats, N.Y. He ripped up the letter and threw it in the trash.

The drilling started up anyway.
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18 comments // Homeowner forced to allow Natural gas industry drills on his land, says tap water turned brown after drilling started.

  • VoyagerFilms
  • maizein
  • tub03524
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      tub03524  

    • Watch the documentary Gasland..it will BLOW your mind. So sad the natural gas industry have made laws where these innocent people cant do ANYTHING.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  

    • A hundred years ago it was the railroad, today its the gas and oil companies. What will it be tomorrow who knows, what we do know for sure is that the wealthy will do as they please and the rest of us just have to keep on trucking and hopeing it will get better.

    • 1 year ago
  • lookatmypix
  • Paratus
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  

    • the good news is that "they" just discovered an enormous amount of geothermal energy under WV & PA where the frackers are presently poisoning our water table.
      the bad news is that "they" have already spent billion$ deploying oil fracking.
      and it doesn't help that "environmentalists" are protesting geothermal energy.
      people are too confused.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  
    • treewolf39:

      20 years ago I lived on the Big Island of Hawaii two miles from a geothermal plant and listened to the arguments of the protesters -- many of whom used diesel generators for electricity. What I concluded is that this is basically about NIMBY, not in my back yard. People were worried it would trigger earthquakes and volcanoes, myself included. But this plant has been operating for 20 years now providing cleaner electricity for islanders who endured rolling blackouts daily until geothermal went on line. No increase in earthquakes or volcanoes yet.
      But I will research this further at your suggestion.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
  • CalgarC
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  

    • Well soon he won't have to pay for gas or propane because his water pipes will be flammable.

      This is really horrible. I can't understand how this happened. Oh, yeah, greed and no viable environmental oversight. I keep forgetting.

    • 1 year ago
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