Comments on: Super-Size Well Pads — Imagine 40 Fracked Wells on One Pad? https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2018/01/25/super-size-well-pads-%e2%80%94-imagine-40-wells-on-one-pad/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mary Wildfire https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2018/01/25/super-size-well-pads-%e2%80%94-imagine-40-wells-on-one-pad/#comment-214306 Mary Wildfire Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:08:50 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=22418#comment-214306 "For neighbors of such sites, the superpad trend means the oil and gas company will be visiting more often and staying longer." Nice wording, huh? As long as you understand that these friendly visits come with guns drawn if you decide you DON'T want a "visit"--most friendly visits depend on the willingness of the one visited, if not an advance invitation. These "visits" do tremendous damage to the land and water and air, and extract minerals whose value can be guessed by the fact that one wellpad consumes a quarter billion dollar investment. When was the last time you had a visitor who could have you arrested for trespassing on your own land if you tried to decline the visit? This is not a visit, this is an invasion, from which our governments from local to national will not protect us. We matter here just as much as the chipmunks and other fauna with whom we share the land. If it were necessary to get rid of all of us to get at the oil and gas and send it to where they want, we'd be cleared out in a heartbeat with no protest from officials at any level. But it isn't necessary--they can just give us a pittance for the section of our land directly under the wellpad, and some of us will self deport to places we hope won't be like this ... most will stay and watch as our quality of life and the place we've chosen to live get degraded more and more, until there's nothing left to extract. Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV “For neighbors of such sites, the superpad trend means the oil and gas company will be visiting more often and staying longer.”
Nice wording, huh? As long as you understand that these friendly visits come with guns drawn if you decide you DON’T want a “visit”–most friendly visits depend on the willingness of the one visited, if not an advance invitation.

These “visits” do tremendous damage to the land and water and air, and extract minerals whose value can be guessed by the fact that one wellpad consumes a quarter billion dollar investment. When was the last time you had a visitor who could have you arrested for trespassing on your own land if you tried to decline the visit?

This is not a visit, this is an invasion, from which our governments from local to national will not protect us. We matter here just as much as the chipmunks and other fauna with whom we share the land. If it were necessary to get rid of all of us to get at the oil and gas and send it to where they want, we’d be cleared out in a heartbeat with no protest from officials at any level.

But it isn’t necessary–they can just give us a pittance for the section of our land directly under the wellpad, and some of us will self deport to places we hope won’t be like this … most will stay and watch as our quality of life and the place we’ve chosen to live get degraded more and more, until there’s nothing left to extract.

Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV

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