[PA Engineer]

I grew up north of Scranton, I remember 50 years ago, farmer friends in school would tell how they could set the water pickets on fire, well water has gas in it. There were gas pockets all over the country side. Long before they started drilling for it.

Yep. That is also the same as Dimock. Our community in the past had the same problem until they removed the gas with conventional drilling. We still occasionally have problems, but nothing like the exploding hot water heaters of the past.

[Ladysforest]

I have rural vacant acreage in Candor NY. There are spots on my land where you can see the iridescent sheen of oil on random puddles. I had an old timer walk the place with me before I made an offer on it and he told me that that sort of stuff is very common and normal as the shale beneath the surface release oil.

I brought it years before the fracking stuff started. Maybe it will pay off some day. BWAHAHAHAA

[caww]

Wonder who they’ll sue when the burning underground coal gets closer and fires up the puddles of oil known long before the Shale drillers got there.......that beast still isn’t out last I heard.