This is what the opposition is up to – received this but will eliminate the sender for privacy reasons. Patty
p.s. We need to make sure we are at Town Board meetings with pro shirts or just to show we are still here.
A while back I joined Toxics Targeting to keep tabs on what Walter "Tree Hugger" Hang and his drones were up to. Attached below is the 6th email he has sent out to his troops since April 19, 2013. What have I received from any of the landowner coalitions?? - 0. Were it not for me going to the Marcellus Drilling News, Energy in Depth, the JLCNY and the Tioga County Landowners Group's websites daily, I would have no idea what is going on with the drilling issue except by reading the paper and watching the news. Be advised that I have heard this same concern from other landowners as well!
With the recent Dryden and Middlefield rulings going against us due to interpretation of the NYS "home rule" law, the battle will now be waged at the town level. As you read Hang's email, he plans on targeting the five counties with the greatest Marcellus potential - Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Steuben, and Chenango counties. Here's what Hang, who resides in Tompkins County, has to say in part in his email: " In short, Home Rule should send a chill down the spine of every Southern Tier resident." He is correct. We landowners are now very much in danger of losing something far more valuable than sign on bonuses and royalty payments: our mineral rights and the freedom to profit from those rights to help us all improve our lives, the lives of our families, and our decaying communities. That will happen unless we begin to go to all of our respective town board meetings to monitor what those fear and hysteria - driven people, who wish to strip us of our rights, are up to.
In today's Press and Sun Bulletin, Kenneth Kamlet, attorney for Hinman, Howard, and Kattell, wrote an editorial about the town battles that are going to commence. In his article he states the following: "Landowners may also subject proposed local laws seeking to restrict gas drilling to super majority approval requirements by collecting signatures on "protest petitions" pursuant to Town Law 265". It would seem highly advisable that we begin creating these petitions immediately by involving all of our friends and relatives and anyone who stands to gain by permitting of HVHF in our respective counties. It is advisable to first contact your respective town attorney or clerk to find out what is entailed in creating one of these petitions to make certain we are conforming to town standards for such a petition. If we do not start aggressive networking via email with our members in all the coalitions, go to town meetings diligently, and collect the aforementioned petitions, we will not win this fight.
It’s time we start helping Dan Fitzsimmons, Vic Furman, Bob Williams, Nick Schoonover, and all the other landowner activists who cannot do this without our involvement. Be advised that this alert is going out to all coalition leaders in the following counties: Allegany, Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Steuben, Tioga, and Town of Vestal which has a rather lengthy and robust web page and steering committee list. I have not yet mastered the technique of sending an email to a large number of respondents hence the fragmented listings. If anyone forwards my email please be sure to DELETE my email address so Mr. Hang does not become aware of my involvement in his organization and I can continue to monitor his activities. Thanks