Columbia Gas Storage Artemas PA Jan 5 2010 video 2
March 92010
Video 2 Clearville’s, Steckman Ridge gas storage field neighbor known as Columbia Gas storage next door, wants to do seismic testing to improve their current storage field but they want to go outside the current storage field to explore for new opportunities in depleted formations where no drilling has taken place to date. Landowners are not fond of the idea to allow seismic activity to take place for storage when their properties have leases to produce and they may lose their opportunity to get the riches from the Marcellus shale which would be sacrificed for underground gas storage so others in the east can flip a light switch. Some landowners have no gas leases, then others think they have gas leases and some don’t know if they are in the storage field, it is kind of a big mess and no maps or lists available to see who is or who isn’t in the storage field. The company told landowners to check with Columbia’s agent, she will tell them what the gas company records show and whether there is a gas lease which is active and has had payment made within the past year. They can get a copy of that gas lease from Columbia and then some landowners may do their own investigations at courthouses or call the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to find out who is or who isn’t in the current gas storage field. Artemas residents have read about Steckman Ridge storage field landowners experiences and fear what is ahead for them which most do not understand the fracking process, safe drinking water act and know if their water is or isn’t safe to drink. They don’t have a clue what is headed their way. The former Bush administration made underground gas storage fields “Public Utilities” which carries them the right of federal eminent domain. Has Columbia gas reworked their current wells in the storage field? A quick internet search will show that horizontal drilling and fracking in the Oriskany formation results in 3 to 5 times more natural gas reserves but requires less water to make them produce than a Marcellus Shale formation requires. That’s the only good side: Less water to produce!
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