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Leasing land for natural gas and exploration presents a whole new paradigm of potential benefits for landowners, but along with the benefits lie a myriad of pitfalls that can adversely affect the land for generations. Our mission is to provide landowners with the information you need to make wise decisions about negotiating natural gas, oil and mineral leases.

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02/02/2010 PENNSYLVANIA ACTION ALERT! Clean and green leg. just passed senate we All need to support and push in the house. Read More... A Note From The Developer Thank you all for your patience and support as we work through improving the functions of the new site. Over the past year hundreds of hours have been spent designing the website to better help landowners network information about natural gas, oil and mineral leasing and production. Our once small community of members has exploded and represents thousands of members from around the globe, all with the need to acquire information about natural gas, oil and minerals. The Barnett Shale, Haynesville Shale, and Marcellus Shale Plays are currently the most active, but we are geared up to be able to help landowners network important information about natural gas, oil and mineral leasing and production anywhere in the world.. As reported by the news media like the Wall Street Journal and industry trade publications, our community of landowners and professionals, each sharing a little piece of the puzzle, has helped tens of thouseands of landowners make better, well informed decisions about the benefits and pitfalls of leasing land for exploration and production. Fox News Covers Marcellus Shale Issues Probably one of the most balanced reports about the Marcellus Natural Gas play that we have seen to date. Hopefully some of the misrepresentations and outright falsehoods that thave been foisted by environmental fanatics will be exposed, as well as the real issues surrounding natural gas drilling. ...View Videos

270 Natural Gas Drilling Accidents - Bogus Reporting
By: Ron Stamets | Jan 10, 2010

A big bogus Thumbs Down for the November 8, 2008 Article in the Binghampton Press entitled Natural gas quest: State files show 270 drilling accidents in past 30 years.

Newspapers were at one time held accountable for misrepresenting facts to further an agenda. This article misleads the public regarding the historical safety of well operations in PA and New York. ... Read more

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Obama Administration Not Aware of 1 Documented Instance of Hydraulic Fracturing Contamination
By: Ron Stamets | Dec 08, 2009

With over a million uses of the hydro-fraccing technology, the Senate and Public Works Committee could not identify a single documented instance of groundwater contamination as a result of using the technology of hydrofraccing.

Is this a case of fuzzy science by the EPA and every other environmental agency in every state? Or is this another Climategate type of issue? ... Read more

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A Mixed Bag of Fear, Fact, and Outright Mis-Information
By: Ron Stamets | Sep 30, 2009

Over the past year we have been sometimes labled as not being concerned enough about the environmental impact of natural gas drilling. We have also been labled by some as being greedy landowners who want to suck the blood out of the drilling companies and get rich at their expense... Extracting unreasonable demands for using our land for natural gas exploration. So in a very real sense, as Andy Rooney once said, I am going to make someone angry and it may as well be those I disagree with. ... Read more

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Natural Gas Leasing - Understand what you are signing!
By: Ron Stamets | Jan 19, 2009

So... The landman has plopped down a natural gas lease agreement on the table and is offering you more money per acre than you paid for the farm itself! What to do? Start acquiring infomation about what it is that he/she is asking of you ... Read more

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