Oh I guess we will let out of state workers come in and take the jobs and take the money home with them.

Wake up lawmakers, we are running the good people of WV out of the State.

This is already taking place in many counties of the State

Please help people to stay in West Virginia.

Thank you for your help at this time.

barbara

LETTER to EDITOR, Charleston Gazette Mail, March 6, 2016

SB 508 is not a bill against frivolous lawsuits or trial lawyers. This is a private property rights issue. The nuisance suit law is an old law to protect people’s right to enjoy their home and property.

For example, when you finally settle into your dream home and have a neighbor build a pig farm next door, it does not physically damage your property but, makes your life unbearable and you can no longer enjoy the investment in your home.

On a larger scale, the natural gas industry builds a 10-acre pad next door. The activity on the pad is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week of an industrial site a few hundred feet from your bedroom window. You now have dust/mud, lights, noise, fumes, trucks coming to the pad. Loud compressors, speeding trucks, county roads impassable, and even worse your source of water becomes unusable.

You cannot move because the value in your home has dropped and you need that equity to relocate. The industry has found themselves with rural residents who were hopeless, until they were advised of their right to sue under the nuisance suit law. They now have some hope to get compensated for their damages.

Now, the Senate passes a bill to change the law for the industry. SB 508 changes the nuisance suit law to favor an industry that has created unbearable situations for innocent people.

We need a balance between rural residents and industry so we can all live together. The industry has bullied our mineral and landowners. Don’t change the law for them so they can continue their abuse.

Please tell delegates to vote “no” on SB 508. Changing the rules for these bullies to continue their abuse is a vote against private property owners.

Thank you Sen. Douglas E. Facemire and Sen. Mike Romano for voting “no” on this bill in the Senate. They are friends of rural residents.

Submitted by: Bill Suan, Lost Creek, Harrison County, WV

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Palumbo shouldn’t have sponsored drilling bill

Just when I felt the Legislature couldn’t get any more disappointing, along came Sen. Corey Palumbo, D-Kanawha, and his sponsorship of a bill that would block lawsuits by landowners against gas drillers that damage their homes. He wants to allow drillers and other companies to do work near your homes without paying the consequences if one of those firms would mess up your drinking water or perhaps cause a crack in your home.

First, I was shocked that Palumbo would vote for, much less sponsor, this legislation.

I grew up in the Charleston area and admired the public service of the Palumbo family through the years. I wonder what his late father, also a senator, would think about this situation.

You see, Palumbo is a lawyer for these companies. It would seem the ethical thing to do would have been to recuse himself from voting on such legislation — not sponsoring the bill. I’m told there is no recusing oneself, but there are other ways to avoid a vote on an issue where you have a conflict. He calls the suits “a nuisance.”

I wonder if he would feel the same way if it were his home that suddenly had no potable drinking water because of a gas driller.

Submitted by: Paul Wallace, Charleston, WV

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