Web Seminar to Cover Issues Related to Natural Gas Leases
Washington
PA Observer-Reporter - 10 January 2010
A Web seminar to address ongoing implications of natural gas leases
will be available at 1 p.m. Jan. 21.
While many landowners across Pennsylvania have signed lease agreements
with natural gas exploration companies, new questions - which may or
may not be clear in the original leases - continue to emerge. A
discussion of these questions will be the focus of a free Web-based
seminar titled, "Post Leasing - Considerations of What Happens Next,
Lessons Learned to Date."
Sponsored by Penn State Cooperative Extension, the seminar will provide
information about the scope of existing and additional lease
agreements. The seminar will address some of the trends landowners have
been observing as the gas extraction phase begins to ramp up in many
parts of the state. Some of these trends include negotiations with
landowners for siting the well pad, lease extensions, the addition of
roads, pipelines, sound mitigation and the need for timbering. The
seminar is available at
http://naturalgas.extension.psu.edu/Events.htm.
Online participants will have the opportunity to ask the speaker
questions during the session.
The seminar is part of an ongoing series of workshops addressing issues
related to the state's Marcellus Shale gas boom. One-hour seminars also
will be held at 1 p.m. on the following dates:
- Feb. 18: "Underground Injection Wells as an Option for
Disposal of Shale Gas Wastewaters: Policies and Practicality." The
presenter will be Karen Johnson, chief, Groundwater and Enforcement
Branch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3.
- March 18: "The Impact of Marcellus Shale: What Do the
Economic Impact Studies Imply?" Presenter will be Timothy Kelsey, Penn
State Cooperative Extension state program leader.
For more information, contact Joann Kowalski, extension educator in
Susquehanna County, at 570-278-1158 or jmk20@psu.edu.