Homeowner forced to allow Natural gas industry drills on his land, says tap water turned brown after

http://dcbureau.org/201012071284/Natural-Resources-News-Service/marcellus-shale-the-real-price-of-compulsory-integration-in-new-york.html

"The natural gas industry made Joe Todd an offer he couldn’t refuse.

He told them no, but New York State’s industry-drafted 2005 “compulsory integration” law made resistance pointless.

Todd had turned away a landman who tried last year to convince him to lease his property to a Denver-based gas driller. Then he received an official letter in January that said he had to surrender his subterranean property rights for a financial stake in the same Colorado driller’s new well operation less than a mile from his home in Big Flats, N.Y. He ripped up the letter and threw it in the trash.

The drilling started up anyway.

In September, Todd’s neighbors, Donetta and Paul Morey watched their well water turn black in their sinks and toilets. When they tried to test for methane by lighting a match near the well, a flame shot into the air, singing Donetta’s eyebrows and setting her hair on fire. She quickly pulled away and patted out the flames."

It poisons and ruins everything. And they try to mow down anyone who stands in their way.

My mom and dad's well was ruined. Hell, one of my friends who owned 30,000 acres and had 3,000 oilwells had their entire aquifer ruined.

Can't eat money. Can't drink oil.

I hate this.

> He told them no, but New York State’s industry-drafted 2005
> “compulsory integration” law made resistance pointless.

The Borg - coming to a state near you real soon now!

:argh: