32,000 Acres??? Drill'n or Killi'n ??

drillin for gas.... Our beautiful state!!!!! thoughts??

http://money.aol.com/article/pa-to-leas ... 0457?flv=1

Drill baby drill! Jobs, tax revenue, & maybe they can allow some motorized recreation there too!

true but the water from such operations is Baaaaaaadd stuff..

I hear ya. I figured they found a way by now to prevent that....

Well I know what would happen in this state (MA) if that were proposed!

Its BIG money.

From what I hear (which isn't much). These well drillers coming up from Texas are just amazed at how much gas they are getting from each well. They are also amazed at how little some people signed leases for. My wife's grandparents signed a few years ago for $25 or $50 and acre. A guy I work with got $5750 an acre last month.

I hear the state of PA is going to look like pot holes all over from the air.

could all of the ng eventually make ng cheaper then coal? right now ng is almost twice as much for me compared to coal. i used ugi penn natural last winter. i know last year they wanted to raise thier ng prices 12%. this was during the time they started discovering all of the new sorces of ng. i was paying about 1.45 a therm when i cancled with ugi. thats after u factored in distribution and other redicolous taxes.

I paid less than a buck a therm for 7 therms last month -- and that included the meter charge -- Factor in a decent sized load to offset the meter charge and the cost of NG is way less than what I am burning this season.


BUT I own it -- I may as well let it fall out of the space shuttle and into baby boiler to be consumed

brckwlt wrote:could all of the ng eventually make ng cheaper then coal?

If they were getting the gas out of your back yard it would probably still be more expensive for you than coal the way things seem to work.

Last I heard they stopped the drilling in SW Pa because of the water discharge. It was nasty crap that was killing everything & the drilliers solution to the problem was they wanted to truck or pipe some of the water to another stream so it would be more dilute. And they wondered why they were stopped.

Sting wrote:I paid less than a buck a therm for 7 therms last month -- and that included the meter charge -- Factor in a decent sized load to offset the meter charge and the cost of NG is way less than what I am burning this season.


BUT I own it -- I may as well let it fall out of the space shuttle and into baby boiler to be consumed

I just got my gas bill for last month and I had heard that NG prices were down so I used the furnace for most of oct. and I used 7000 cuft and was expecting it to cost around $10 per thousand. Boy was I wrong!!!!! My gas was still $16.28 per thousand. I am being ripped off!!!

samhill wrote:Last I heard they stopped the drilling in SW Pa because of the water discharge. It was nasty crap that was killing everything & the drilliers solution to the problem was they wanted to truck or pipe some of the water to another stream so it would be more dilute. And they wondered why they were stopped.

I had read that it was not the drillers as first thought but discharge water from coal mining (Consol Energy) I believe. I will see if I can dig up the article.

Here it is. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09286/1005162-113.stm#ixzz0TpaaakCj

Sure, drill all the way.

As a former PA resident I'd worry about the effect of the fracturing on the local aquifers. There are other areas in the Marcellus shale formation going through these same issues in PA and elsewhere.

If they do drill I hope they do it in an environmental way.

Its still domestic fuel which I like . They are drilling about a mile down the road from me . Sure I am worried what they will do to the environment but as long as they are as careful as possible ,I say drill away . There were a few incidents in the past couple of months that I have to admit make me a little nervous as far as how careful they are. But again, domestic jobs ,fuel and big economic boost to our area . Dave