Resources for Learning about Oil & Gas Leasing

Citizens Shale Advisors supports drilling and production when they are done with the proper respect for the land and a fair royalty is offered. We believe that the industry needs proper, knowledgeable, private oversight to prevent the many aspects of drilling that can go wrong. Each week we learn of another unfortunate incident that could have been prevented and is usually irreversible.

Please review the information below not as our statements but as concerns of hazards and the landowners’ frustration or lack of satisfaction with the industry response to the problems. These resources illustrate what can happen when oil and gas production is based on the standard industry lease/contract. If promises made to prevent these problems are not written properly into the lease then they are meaningless words, and you must accept the consequences of the lease.

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• Environmental Data Testing
• Video and blog
  From a 38,000 acre Texas ranch under lease since the mid 1930s
• More Precious Than Oil
  TX Monthly, February 1991, pp 106-109 and continuing on p 141, 157-159

Video Documentaries

• Split Estate documentary
  This award winning 76 minute 2009 documentary concerns the legal concept of split estate ownership of land and how life on the surface of a gas field is affected when energy companies operate without restraints. Filmed in Colorado.
• A Land Out of Time Documentary
  This award winning 53 minute 2006 documentary was filmed in the gas fields of the Rocky Mountain west. Landowners speak out about their problems with industry.
• CRUDE- The real price of oil documentary
  This award winning 105 minute 2009 documentary documents the effects of pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon as a result of unregulated oil production by a major U. S. company.
• Drilling the West
  This National Geographic short documentary has a lot of video footage of surface use by the drilling industry.
• Dirty Ol' Town
  This video documents the true cost of urban gas drilling in Fort Worth neighborhoods.
• This video was filmed in the Barnett Shale gas field.
  A series of aerial still photographs of land that has gas wells and associated equipment, pipelines, and truck access roads in place. The spatial density of the drilling pads is typical for gas fields. Remember, it is the pictures here that we want you to see—not other messages implied or stated.
• Faulty cement jobs can produce leaks that pollute ground water and affect health.
• Every gas well has a pipeline connected to it. Learn about them here.
• Oil and Gas Accountability Project
• Natural Gas Explosions
  Many news stories and photos
• Well cementing failure
  This is one of the major causes of pollution problems.
• hydraulic fracturing
  Learn about the concerns and issues surrounding this production stimulation process.
• Article about modern hydraulic fracturing

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