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Stop letting the 2% Texas mineral owners bully the 98% surface owners

July 23, 2015 By TXsharon

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Imagine my surprise to learn that only 2% of Texans own minerals rights. The rights of 2% of Texans override the rights of 98% of Texans. Tricia Davis who is the president of the Texas Royalty Council wrote an essay supporting HB40, the bill … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HB 40, property value, Royalties

Update: Official: Mortgage lenders refuse loans on fracked property

April 4, 2014 By TXsharon

Is your property leased for unconventional drilling and fracking? Sorry, no mortgage for you. Do you have unconventional drilling and fracking as a neighbor? Sorry, your property has been devalued. US Finance Post: Mortgages and Hydraulic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: property value

New York Riesling: “Full bodied, with hints of lemons, limes and toluene”

July 12, 2012 By Chip Northrup

Keuka Lake residents and wineries have second thoughts about letting a bunch of neolithic thugs frack methane into their drinking water . And dodging frack truck convoys on their way to the annual harvest.  Imagine that. Team Jeff & Jodi have the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mapping Methane, Marcellus Shale, Methane, produced water, property value Tagged With: allison crocker, chip northrup, compulsory integration, compulsory pooling, cuomo, dec, fracking, gas migration, greg sovas, James "Chip" Northrup, keuka lake, leaking gas wells, marcellus new york, pulteney, sgeis, shale gas, tom west dryden, tom west middlefield

No mortgages on homes with leases

January 21, 2011 By TXsharon

Houses for shaleNew mortgages unavailable for properties with gas drilling leases, By Linda FieldsIn a memo, a top executive at the bank writes it would be “very difficult to obtain financing due to the potential hazard.” The memo continues, “Also if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: property value

Fower Mound Property Values Fracked

September 20, 2010 By TXsharon

Flower Mound Drilling Impact StudyThe summary is on page 8. The bottom line is a -3% to -14% if the property is within 1000 feet of a well. There are some flaws in how they conducted the study. They did not take into consideration neighborhoods that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: property value

Shale drilling issues highlighted on national blog Daily Kos

September 20, 2010 By TXsharon

Property devalued 75%! Where's your "Drill, Baby, drill" now?It has been on the list of recommended posts for hours and has over 200 300 comments.UPDATE: Oh come on, People! Who is surprised by this? What person in their right mind thinks that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydraulic fracturing, property value

BREAKING: Intimidation tactics by Big Gas in the Barnett Shale

September 18, 2010 By TXsharon

In the wee hours of the morning, Tim and Christine Ruggiero's mailbox was knocked down and so was Calvin and Tiffany Tillman's.The timing of these intimidation tactics indicates that industry understands the seriousness of the recent news about how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Intimidation, property value

Seventy Five Percent Loss in Property Values due to drilling

September 18, 2010 By TXsharon

Where's your, "Drill, Baby, drill" now?Drilling can dig into land valueSaturday, September 18, 2010By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe One year to the day after a company set up its drilling rigs on their land in eastern Wise County, Tim and Christine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: property value

Barnett Shale health concerns highlighted in Statesman

June 13, 2010 By TXsharon

As urban gas drilling expands, so do health concernsTexas environmental agency accused of lax monitoring, lack of transparency.Nicely done! But, is anyone else wondering why Fort Worth is broke with all the billions in Barnett Shale money rolling in? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barnett Shale, property value

FHA Financing and Gas drilling

February 17, 2010 By TXsharon

Ut oh! Get out your measuring tapes!William ColtonComments Regarding the dSGEIS for Natural Gas Drilling in New York State’s Southern TierVI. FHA Financing and Gas drillingMy staff came across this HUD regulation which deals with gas drilling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: property value

Mortgages and Natural Gas Leases

November 17, 2009 By TXsharon

This is in Pennsylvania but it's only a matter of time, a few more people who just walk away from their homes, and a few more pipeline accidents until...Some properties may need to be re-mortgaged if gas leases signedPotential environmental damage to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: property value

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