Frack Check WV » public meeting https://www.frackcheckwv.net Just another WordPress site Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:41:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Understanding Unitization of Interests or “Forced Pooling” https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/07/07/understanding-unitization-of-interests-or-%e2%80%9cforced-pooling%e2%80%9d/ https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/07/07/understanding-unitization-of-interests-or-%e2%80%9cforced-pooling%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:57:26 +0000 Duane Nichols http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=14970

WVU Extension Service Educational Programs:  July 7 and July 8, 2015

Public Meetings — Understanding Unitization of Interests or “Forced Pooling”

What is pooling? Who benefits? What does it mean to be “forced”?
What was in House Bill 2688 (Providing for the unitization of interests in drilling units in connection with all horizontal oil or gas wells)? What are the concerns with Forced Pooling? What were the concerns with House Bill 2688? What and when will new legislation be proposed?

Presenters: Joshua Fershee, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and Professor of Law, WVU College of Law; Delegate Lynwood “Woody” Ireland (R-Ritchie, 07); *Delegate Pat McGeehan (R-Hancock, 01); and **Senator Mike Romano (D-Harrison, 12). [Delegate McGeehan will attend the July 7 meeting only. Senator Romano will attend the July 8 meeting only.]

July 7 – Blaskovich Community Center, 4453 National Road, Triadelphia, WV (Ohio County)
July 8 – Doddridge County Park, Snowbird Road (County Rt. 50/16), West Union, WV (Doddridge County)

Both programs start at 6:00 p.m. For more information and directions, click here to download the flyer .  For questions, contact Georgette Plaugher, WVU Extension Service Natural Gas Team Coordinator at 304-329-1391 or via email at Georgy.Plaugher@mail.wvu.edu.

More information on forced pooling and SORO’s position can be found in the newsletter and on our website, www.wvsoro.org.

July 13: Not Your Grandparent’s Oil & Gas Industry, Meeting Two

About 200 folks showed up for a recent meeting hosted by our friends at the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) titled “Not Your Grandparent’s Oil & Gas Industry.”

At that meeting, we heard from lawyers, including WV-SORO’s Dave McMahon and activists like Bill Hughes who have been dealing with shale-fracking issues in other parts of the state. Now OVEC is having a second meeting where folks can share, in a moderated discussion, stories of what is already happening in Wayne and surrounding counties.

Please plan to join us at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, July 13 at First Congregational UCC, 701 5th Ave, Huntington, WV.

WV-SORO will not have a speaking role at this meeting, but will have a representative present and available to help answer questions.

>>> Source: Julie Archer, WV Surface Owners’ Rights Organization, 1500 Dixie Street, Charleston, WV 25311

WV-SORO Phone: (304) 346-5891,  Internet: www.wvsoro.org

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On June 2nd the public meeting entitled “Public Meeting on the Adverse Impacts of Marcellus Natural Gas Activities: Where Are We, Where Are We Going” was held at the Skyview Elementary School, near the Marcellus well site at the Morgantown Industrial Park. One of the significant themes of this meeting was the public health risks to the public water supply, to the regional air quality and from the very large increase in truck traffic. The minutes of that meeting have been posted to the UMRA web site.
 
 More recently, the health secretary in Pennsylvania has recommended a plan to study these public health risks. Health Secretary Eli Avila told Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission that creating a health effects registry is the timeliest and most important step the Department of Health could take given the level of Marcellus drilling underway, and that his agency is not aware of anything like it in other drilling states. This story is in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 
 
Collecting information on drilling-related health complaints, investigating them, centralizing the information in one database and then comparing illnesses in drilling communities with non-drilling communities could help refute or verify claims that drilling has an impact on public health, he said. The aggregation of data and information also would allow the Department of Health to make its findings public, in contrast to the privacy that surrounds its investigation into individual health complaints and the findings that may result, according to the Wheeling Intelligencer.
 
 
 

 

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Approximately 100 citizens appeared at a public hearing for the benefit of legislators at the Capitol in Charleston,WV to state their views about Marcellus shale gas industry.   A significant majority of the speakers stated that the shale gas industry is having negative impacts on the environment and public health and that there is not adequate regulation.   At least one speaker called for a moratorium.  The hearing was scheduled to take place for an hour and a half and each speaker was allowed only one minute.  The legislators were not permitted to ask questions of the speakers.   Story here.

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