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‘My rights’

“I feel like my rights are being taken away because if I don’t lease my land, and my neighbor does, they can go under me and contaminate my water,” said Cindy Gieger, who runs a dairy farm on 200 acres (80 hectares) of property in nearby Jeffersonville and says she does not trust gas companies to drill safely.

Under a rule known as compulsory integration, gas companies in New York state can secure leases on 60% of a patch of land, totaling no more than 640 acres (259 hectares), to seek a permit to drill on the entire patch. The landowner who sits over unleased land is paid 12,5% of the royalties — far less than if the landowner had signed a lease.

“Property rights are a very relative thing,” said Albert Appleton, a former commissioner of New York City Department of Environmental Protection. “The rights of property ends where the exercise of your rights impacts somebody else’s right to property. When people talk about their property rights they don’t talk about the right of the person who doesn’t want to drill gas, not to have their property destroyed, their wells threatened.”

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‘My rights’

“I feel like my rights are being taken away because if I don’t lease my land, and my neighbor does, they can go under me and contaminate my water,” said Cindy Gieger, who runs a dairy farm on 200 acres (80 hectares) of property in nearby Jeffersonville and says she does not trust gas companies to drill safely.

Under a rule known as compulsory integration, gas companies in New York state can secure leases on 60% of a patch of land, totaling no more than 640 acres (259 hectares), to seek a permit to drill on the entire patch. The landowner who sits over unleased land is paid 12,5% of the royalties — far less than if the landowner had signed a lease.

“Property rights are a very relative thing,” said Albert Appleton, a former commissioner of New York City Department of Environmental Protection. “The rights of property ends where the exercise of your rights impacts somebody else’s right to property. When people talk about their property rights they don’t talk about the right of the person who doesn’t want to drill gas, not to have their property destroyed, their wells threatened.”

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‘My rights’

“I feel like my rights are being taken away because if I don’t lease my land, and my neighbor does, they can go under me and contaminate my water,” said Cindy Gieger, who runs a dairy farm on 200 acres (80 hectares) of property in nearby Jeffersonville and says she does not trust gas companies to drill safely.

Under a rule known as compulsory integration, gas companies in New York state can secure leases on 60% of a patch of land, totaling no more than 640 acres (259 hectares), to seek a permit to drill on the entire patch. The landowner who sits over unleased land is paid 12,5% of the royalties — far less than if the landowner had signed a lease.

“Property rights are a very relative thing,” said Albert Appleton, a former commissioner of New York City Department of Environmental Protection. “The rights of property ends where the exercise of your rights impacts somebody else’s right to property. When people talk about their property rights they don’t talk about the right of the person who doesn’t want to drill gas, not to have their property destroyed, their wells threatened.”

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Not everyone hired a firm to do a “study” in order to “comment” on the dSGEIS

NYC has an FAD, and the thing about fads, they come and go!
act responsibly and build a filtration plant
otherwise full compensation is due to watershed landowners

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As far as “property rights,” regulations govern just about every aspect of our lives and properties, regardless of where you live. You cannot build more than one house per 5-acres in the Watershed. Hypothetically, if you build a 100-story skyscraper, with condos and offices, a rotating restaurant on top, in the Watershed… you could make billions. But of course, you can’t build it. You can go on and on with all sorts of examples of “takings” rules or regulations that supposedly deprive a property owner of cash. The fact is that the public interest, particularly safe, clean drinking water for 11 million people, trumps the majority of land use possibilities in the Watershed.

Most Delaware County and local elected officials just don’t get it. They spend just about all their time complaining about NYC, to the detriment of all other issues. If anyone needs the Serenity Prayer, they certainly do:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

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