South Caddo residents protest Chesapeake drilling
(The Shreveport Times)
South Caddo residents protest Chesapeake drilling
May 14, 2009
Wielding signs decrying Chesapeake Energy Corp, wearing makeshift masks over their faces and displaying photos of cats, dogs and cows, about 15 demonstrators marched in front of the Regions Bank building in downtown Shreveport today, charging that the company is killing animals and causing illnesses.
Carrying signs with slogans like, “Fraud is Fraud I was cheated by Chesapeake and Goodrich”, “We’re at risk, please protect us”, “Toxic chemicals, dead cows, are we next”? the protestors descended on the building where Chesapeake’s local office is located.
“I want them to come out and be good, be honest and have integrity,” said C. C. Canady, president of United Neighbors for Oil and Gas Rights, which claims 23,000 members. Canady started the group about two years ago after several residents of rural Caddo Parish complained that they were unfairly treated when asked to lease their mineral rights.
“We know Chesapeake isn’t going anywhere, but we want them to provide better living conditions for the people and animals in this community,” she said.
Canady and members of the group live in the south Caddo Parish area where 17 head of cattle died last month after, invegastigators say, they likely drank a substance that flowed from a natural gas well site and into a pasture. Analysis of the substance confirmed that it contained elevated chlorides, oil and grease and some organic compounds.
Canady say she witnessed some of the deaths and reported that the cows appeared to have swollen bellies.
She promises many more organized protests.
South Caddo residents protest Chesapeake drilling
May 14, 2009
Wielding signs decrying Chesapeake Energy Corp, wearing makeshift masks over their faces and displaying photos of cats, dogs and cows, about 15 demonstrators marched in front of the Regions Bank building in downtown Shreveport today, charging that the company is killing animals and causing illnesses.
Carrying signs with slogans like, “Fraud is Fraud I was cheated by Chesapeake and Goodrich”, “We’re at risk, please protect us”, “Toxic chemicals, dead cows, are we next”? the protestors descended on the building where Chesapeake’s local office is located.
“I want them to come out and be good, be honest and have integrity,” said C. C. Canady, president of United Neighbors for Oil and Gas Rights, which claims 23,000 members. Canady started the group about two years ago after several residents of rural Caddo Parish complained that they were unfairly treated when asked to lease their mineral rights.
“We know Chesapeake isn’t going anywhere, but we want them to provide better living conditions for the people and animals in this community,” she said.
Canady and members of the group live in the south Caddo Parish area where 17 head of cattle died last month after, invegastigators say, they likely drank a substance that flowed from a natural gas well site and into a pasture. Analysis of the substance confirmed that it contained elevated chlorides, oil and grease and some organic compounds.
Canady say she witnessed some of the deaths and reported that the cows appeared to have swollen bellies.
She promises many more organized protests.
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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on
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Canady wants to provide better living conditions for the cows and people in this community. My house isn't large enough for my station in life! I demand Chesapeake provide me with a bigger house!!! All these cows I see are looking kinda puny. I demand Chesapeake fertilize all the pastures in NW Louisiana. If they agree to meet with my demands, I won't pickett them until the next time I need something!
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Permalink Reply by Catfish on
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I see two things on this subject.
Cows died, we don't know why yet.
This group is using lies to futher it's agenda.
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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on -
"Now we have a situation that is pushing these humans to preform faster and faster to get the job done and there will be more deaths and more accidents. B4 the Haynesville, drilling has always been a business that pushed their employees to hurry up like they were a day late and a dollar short. "
If you were paying a drilling company $25,000/ day, you would be in a hurry too.
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Permalink Reply by Mark on
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Its not an excuse if it (money in this discussion) is the reason your doing something.
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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on
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Chesapeake, you are welcome to come drill my land. You too Petrohawk, Exco, Encana, Questar. Just drill me a productive horizontal Haynesville well. While you're at it, drill me a couple of horizontal Cotton Valleys, too. If you spill something, clean it up. If you break something, fix it. We'll get along just fine.
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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on
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What if the sun doesn't come up tomorrow? My experience has been different from yours. I assume you have had direct and personal experience with Chesapeake??? I agree with you on the cows..they had a bad experience. They won't have the opportunity to be eaten by you or I. I assume you're not a vegetarian??? As for the cats and chickens.........I don't remember reading about cats or chickens dying as a result of the spill. Must have missed it. As for Skipper Williams, I'd bet a few bucks that he will be paid a sum for the cows that will result in a nice tidy profit. That is what he does....... raise cows for a profit. As to the landowner, I am confident that his bank account will be a little fatter, the spill will get cleaned up in whatever manner is necessary, and when this hoopla dies down, the well will be completed, turned to sales in the pipeline, and the landowner/mineral owner will continue to have his bank account get fatter and fatter as a result of those nasty monthly royalty checks. Dad gum, I love the Haynesville Shale! You have your experiences, these are mine. I pray the sun comes up tomorrow. I am beginning to wonder if there aren't some on this web site who aren't against ALL drilling, exclamation point.
Earline, I'd like to ask you a question.......with all your "what ifs"......it appears to me that you may be against all forms of oil and gas exploration on your land period. Is that in fact the case? Would you allow oil or gas drilling on your land?
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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on
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And maybe lightening hits a tree on my land and burns the forest up. I can't live my life in fear of lightening strikes. Your glass is half empty, my glass is half full. If there is an incident on my land, I'll deal with it at the time. In the meantime, as an intelligent landowner, I'll have an intelligent attorney write a lease that will give me as many protections as is reasonable and then I'll go on with my life, by not assuming that there is a catastrophe just around every corner. I refuse to live my life gripped with fear. The Haynesville Shale is the opportunity of multiple lifetimes and I intend to try to take every advantage of it. You should too.
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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on
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I will have to admit, if someone contacts me about buying mineral interests, the first thing I ask for is a copy of the lease the minerals are burdened by. I am shocked by the number of leases which use the Bath form and have no Exhibit A, or have an exhibit A with 2 or 3 paragraphs. The problem is, it is too late to help those folks. For the others, who are waiting to lease or (few and far between) release, I've read on this site 100's of times the advice to get a qualified attorney to review or prepare your lease. What else can you do? Earline, the reason I asked if you'd be willing to have a well drilled on your land is because I've read many of your posts and frankly, after reading them, I would have guessed that you would never allow drilling on your land.
For many people in NW Louisiana that royalty check each month is going to be a huge substitute for that Social Security check which may or, one day, may not come in the mail.
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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on
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I was really referring to the fact that SS is for all practical purposes bankrupt and that royalty check may be the difference for some in being able to get by, or not. I've paid into SS for a lot of years now. It'll be my luck, they'll change the rules and make me wait till age 70 to begin drawing or make it means tested.
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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on
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KB, I own land and minerals and I am one landowner who is not the slightest bit ashamed to say that that $$$$$$$$$$$$$ plays a huge role in my agenda. When I look at one of those 150 foot tall drilling rigs turning to the right, I don't see steel........I see MONEY!
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