Posted on 06/08/2013 11:37:15 PM PDT by neverdem
What the heck ping, but in the idiom of a grunt.
In short, the limousine liberals with their holier than thou (if that's the right phrase to use!) attitude. Sorry, with the high price of gasoline here in California, anything that will send the price higher won't cut it with voters. Does anyone remember the movie Promised Land starring Matt Damon, which proved not only to be a box-office failure but was rightfully denounced for its innumerable inaccuracies?
This is great news! My sister inherited land from Dad that has natural gas under it, in Kings County CA.
We were afraid the enviro-weenies were going to successfully try and stop fracking.
The American Land Conservancy has been trying to buy those parcels. I suspect for a land swap involving the BLM, as in Nevada 20-years ago, the one that involved Sen.Harry Reid.
I'd love to also see those beautiful pumping stations that can be looked at off shore from the beach putting out that good old Black Gold again!
The environmentalists should be behind that as it would take the pressure off and we wouldn't have those tar balls (from oil oozing out the ocean floor) messing up the pretty beaches anymore.
If true blue (red white and) Patriotic Americans ever get the reins again here in California we will indeed be the Golden State again.
DRILL BABY DRILL... is now FRACK BABY FRACK!!!
I hope that all works out for the family.
Several states are talking about selling government owned land to the citizens (Nevada for one, the gov owns most of thT state), that would be a real boon here in California.
Your sister needs to keep watch so the enviroWACKOS don’t dump a pail of water on her land and declare it a wetland!
Oh yea You Betcha!
Oh My.....they went a bit too deep.....and struck oil instead.
Now there is an idea, oops struck oil...
Heh, reminds me of the Beverly Hillbillies, “bubblin’ crude”
Who owns the mineral rights?
My sister now does. This land has been in the family for over a century.
Good luck to her.
Most real estate transactions now-a-days don’t convey mineral rights. It’s good that your family has owned it for so long.
That’s a real treasure.
Sounds like the title of a BattleStar Galactica Episode...
As the article points out, they are talking about the Monterray Shale, of which, a large part of it is split estate. The surface rights are privately owned and the subsurface rights or mineral rights are owned by the BLM.
Obama's Interior Dept first auctioned a smaller portion of these BLM subsurface rights in 2011 and then a larger portion in Dec 2012.
When it comes to drilling in a split estate, the surface owners don't receive royalties so they usually oppose drilling.
Whereas SatinDoll's sister owns both the surface and sub-surface rights, there are going to be a landowners opposed to this drilling because they have to suffer the activity of drilling but won't receive a royalty. NIMBYs.
The sister's land is probably not covered by this activity thus far, but a oil company land man could approach her in the future about a drilling lease. It is always a good idea to talk to a lawyer first.
What are the chemicals used and are the same chemicals used at every frack site?
I'm a 'drill baby drill' kinda guy, just curious.
The days of Jed Clampett’s easy oil, Spindletop, etc, were long gone decades ago.
Good news for California. This was sanity prevailing in the form of raw self interest, which is about as close to enlightened as Democrats get. I will say that a part of me (probably the bad part) wouldn’t have minded seeing Cali pass the ban thereby hastening its slide into liberal dystopia. Now they’ll have a thriving energy sector propping things up.
A couple good introduction on the subject.
http://www.halliburton.com/public/projects/pubsdata/hydraulic_fracturing/fracturing_101.html
http://fracfocus.org/hydraulic-fracturing-process
I guess the people who profit from the fracking can buy a Democrat.
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