$750M gas line draws critics – Times Union
July 11, 2012
Gas Pipelines: What Municipalities Need to Know (Ithaca)
June 28, 2012
Gas Pipelines: What Municipalities Need to Know (Ithaca)
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Gas Pipelines: What Municipalities Need to Know
May 17, 2012. Ithaca, NY. Free Twenty interstate natural gas pipeline systems crisscross the region from West Virginia to Maine. As gas drilling operations expand, thousands of miles of new pipelines will be needed to connect existing pipelines to gas wells. Learn the difference between gathering, transmission, and distribution lines; what agencies have jurisdiction over the various types of lines; how pipelines are permitted, regulated, and monitored; and how municipalities can prepare for an increase in pipeline networks.
Presenters: Sharon Anderson, Environmental Program Leader, Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County; Jim Austin, Environmental Certification and Compliance, State of New York Department of Public Service; Deborah Goldberg, Managing Attorney, Earthjustice Northeast Regional Office; Meghan Thoreau, Planner, Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board.
Co-sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County and Tompkins County Council of Governments.
VAST MAJORITY OF NEW YORKERS WANT CUOMO TO WAIT FOR MORE RESEARCH BEFORE OPENING EMPIRE STATE TO FRACKING
June 21, 2012
Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy.
VAST MAJORITY OF NEW YORKERS WANT CUOMO TO WAIT FOR MORE RESEARCH BEFORE OPENING EMPIRE STATE TO FRACKING
N.Y., Chesapeake Energy reach settlement on disputed gas leases | Press & Sun-Bulletin | pressconnects.com
June 14, 2012 1 Comment
Summary of Judgment:
June 14, 2012 CHESAPEAKE/ NYS ATTORNEY GENERAL SETTLEMENT
AGREEMENT: OVERVIEW OF # OF LEASES IMPACTED:
1. BACKGROUND:
a. Document is called “ASSURANCE OF DISCONTINUANCE”
b. Combines AG’s investigation into:
i. Force majeure claims by Chesapeake; and
ii. Lease extension clauses
iii. No admission of wrong doing by Chesapeake.
2. # OF LEASES IMPACTED:
a. 50 LEASES–Chesapeake agrees to release–these had a blank
for the amount necessary to trigger the Automatic Extension;
b. 4,365 LEASES–land owners can negotiate with other gas
companies:
i. If they receive bona fide offers that are better;
ii. Then Chesapeake can decide if they will match the better
terms or release the lease, after the better one
executed;
c. 1,865 LEASES–AG agrees that Chesapeake has extended
properly under the Automatic Extension clause
3. OTHER PROVISIONS:
a. Chesapeake will not use the state environmental review
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process as a reason to extend any leases expiring after Dec. 31,
2013;
b. Chesapeake will pay state $250,000.00 to cover its costs for
this investigation;
c. There is no agreement as to whether Chesapeake’s force
majeure claims, based on state regulatory situation, are valid
or invalid.
GDACC 
