Corbett Signs Back-Door Forced Pooling Into Law

[blue neen]

"Governor Corbett signed a controversial bill into law today, giving drillers the power to combine or “pool” leases for horizontal oil and gas drilling."

"The legislation was originally promoted as an effort to bring more transparency to the deductions companies take out of royalty payments. Complaints over those deductions lead to a recent Senate hearing on the issue."

"An organization representing Pennsylvania’s mineral owners was angered over language added later on, which allows pooling of some leases. They complained the measure sailed through the state legislature during budget negotiations and didn’t receive enough scrutiny."

“We are not pleased.” says Jackie Root, president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO-PA). “It is so vaguely written and so broad.”

http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/07/09/corbett-signs-controversial-bill-giving-drillers-power-to-pool-leases/

[femmocrat]

1. K & R

Corbutt is doing everything he can for his gashole buddies before the voters toss him out of office next year.

[blue neen]

3. They'll all be celebrating tomorrow in Pittsburgh at Governor Gashole's "Birthday Party."

I heard it's a "Thomas the Tank Engine" theme.

[blue neen]

2. An excellent editorial from the Warren Times Observer that explains what a rip-off this really is:

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"Imagine for a moment that you own land you inherited from your parents, who inherited it from their parents, and so on, for a generation or two more."

"Early on in that lineage one of your ancesters signed a lease with an oil company to drill a simple, vertical well to produce some of that fine parafin-based Pennsylvania-grade crude oil, and some natural gas to boot."

"For some reading this, that’s not so difficult to imagine."

"You hardly notice the bobbing jack, let alone the gas well that hisses softly in your meadow."

Read more at:

http://www.timesobserver.com/page/content.detail/id/565596/Our-opinion--Legislating-property-rights.html?nav=5008

[JPZenger]

4. the House cannot claim ignorance - they had a chance to remove this provision

Rep. Jesse White said he noticed the pooling provision before the bill came to a vote, and called everyone's attention to it. He called for a vote to remove it, but it failed.

[blue neen]

5. That's very unfortunate.

As if the frackers and drillers didn't have enough power...

[JPZenger]

7. Please shrink to avoid copyright violations

Thanks for posting. However, we are supposed to hold quotes down to 3 paragraphs to avoid copyright violations.

[blue neen]

8. Thanks, JP.

Forgot about that when posting the editorial. It was just so damn good!

[blkmusclmachine]

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[blue neen]

9. Hey Republicans, stay out of my body and off of my property.

The Republican meme on this travesty of a bill is that it's actually doing us a favor. "There will be less environmental impact this way."

Bullshit.

It's just like saying forced vaginal ultrasounds are actually "good for women."

Where do Republicans get off thinking that they stand for "less government"?

[PA Democrat]

10. Everyday is "opposite day" in PA under Republican rule.

The biggest lie is that they work for anyone other than the big corporate interests that fund their campaigns.

[blue neen]

11. Isn't it interesting that Consol had a birthday party for Corbett on July 12?

His birthday was actually June 17.

That was no birthday party. That was a "Thank You for Doing as You're Directed, Tom" party...a party held 3 days after Corbett signed the Forced Pooling Law.