GASLAND (the trailer)
Posted on: June 26, 2010 - 10:13pm
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GASLAND (the trailer)
Yo, did anyone here see the HBO documentary "GASLAND". I caught this,this afternoon and man WTF. Thanks to Bush-Cheney for passing a law that now let gas companies drill in National Parks.This was followed by Obama,who has not stopped the drilling.
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Lighting your tap water on fire, what an epic example of how fucked up our use of oil is. its sickening
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Ken, in the US when you purchase a house or land, you do NOT purchase the oil and minerals rights. That is a separate purchase. I think from when the law was first put in place in the mid-late 1800s. The oil and mineral rights are probably already purchased by some big oil company. They started buying up the O&M rights as soon as the law went into effect. And if they now want to drill on your property, you have to let them. They own it.
I don't think this is right. But to take away the O&M rights, you would have to buy it from the oil companies. Darn few of us have that kind of money.
Even my little house on a city lot has O&M rights exemptions. When I purchased the property, there is a clause in the deed that explicitly states the deed does not include these rights. I'm not concerned, as where I am there is darn little oil, gas, minerals, or even water worth drilling for. We are on one of the smaller very extinct volcanoes in Portland.
This is a really cool map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Lava_Field
We live on the western edge of this lava field.
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