http://findingulysses.com/2009/07/20/doug-austic-made-deal-for-natural-gas-drilling/ Blog and discussion forum for residents of Trumansburg and Ulysses, New York Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://findingulysses.com/2009/07/20/doug-austic-made-deal-for-natural-gas-drilling/comment-page-1/#comment-197662 allen Carstensen Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:20:57 +0000 http://findingulysses.com/?p=610#comment-197662 If you listen to the mp3 on my blog, you'll here Liz Thomas ask the whole board to disclose wether on not anyone on the board has leased to a gas company. Doug Austic is the only one who replied affirmatively. In his defense, he said that it has been leased for 15 years, and I don't think that many of us were aware of this hydrofracking technology back then (if it even existed). This raises a question in my mind - can a gas drilling company come onto someone's property and use this new technology, if there is no mention of it in the old contract? I suspect the answer is yes. If you listen to the mp3 on my blog, you’ll here Liz Thomas ask the whole board to disclose wether on not anyone on the board has leased to a gas company. Doug Austic is the only one who replied affirmatively. In his defense, he said that it has been leased for 15 years, and I don’t think that many of us were aware of this hydrofracking technology back then (if it even existed). This raises a question in my mind – can a gas drilling company come onto someone’s property and use this new technology, if there is no mention of it in the old contract? I suspect the answer is yes.

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