My 2.25 acres just gave me my first two month (oct/nov) check ... $2,924.00
Wow.
When did YOUR vote actually accomplish anything?
Mebbie there’s hope yet.
Year before last we visited Monahans Texas, just west of Odessa. At the suggestion of a pipe fitter I met camping in the state park, we hung around two days exploring the booming Permian Basin drill sites to the north near Kermit.
He was in the state park because he was having trouble finding permanent space. The RV parks were all full and even overflowing with worker trailers.
He had come there from Pennsylvania where he got fed up with the political wackos interfering with the work. (His permanent home was Missouri) He would come to work to discover it had been shut down for some reason or other. That meant he lost pay.
In Texas there was too much work. He could work 24/7 if he could stand it.
Local zoning is a power used by local tyrants and local crony capitalists. Zoning laws need to be reigned in and simplified. Nobody should have their life turned over to a government bureaucrat aka a disinterested 3rd party.
At a gas field in cetral Arkansas. Gas drilling was stopped for decades because of an incident back in the 1920s.
A gas company was drilling on a farm and hit gas. The well suddenly ignited and there was a column of FIRE coming out of the ground!
All those backwoods hillbillies just knew the gas company had drilled into HELL and the Devil was coming out to get them!
When the well was finally plugged, the company could not get a lease to drill anywhere in the area till the 1990s.
For those who want to see a 6 minute video showing how horizontal drilling and fracking is done, Northern Gas and Oil has done a great one.
It includes a visual piece on how fresh water aquifers are protected from contamination.
http://www.northernoil.com/drilling-video
Knowledge is power, keep the link and pass it on.