Letter: Drilling in residential areas may be possible | Press & Sun-Bulletin | pressconnects.com
November 10, 2011
Letter: Drilling in residential areas may be possible | Press & Sun-Bulletin | pressconnects.com.
Letter: Drilling in residential areas may be possible
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Recent Guest Viewpoints by Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan and Victor Furman spoke about gas drilling in city or residential areas.
It appears to me that drilling under residential areas could readily occur without permission of residents. Here is how:
A typical Marcellus drilling unit will be two miles long and one-half mile wide.
Drilling from a leased well pad outside a residential area and going more than three-quarters of a mile under residences could easily occur without permission of those landowners using the eminent domain-like legal procedure of Compulsory Integration.
It would only be necessary for the driller to have leased 60 percent of the land outside the residential area.
According to New York environmental conservation law, permission for the rest of the drilling unit can be acquired simply on the request of the driller.
Stanley R. Scobie
Binghamton
GDACC 
