pilot project for cbm?

[cowman]

Oilman: Well I am a fair ways north of 35-27 but I will tell you I think the EUB has done the right thing in this situation! They got the landowners involved, they got the municipality involved, they got the companies involved!
I think the landowners spokesman, Dave Hoar, was a very credible speaker for what the landowners wanted. I know practically everyone of those landowners and would consider it a good representation of the people living in 35-27?
I know Leo Touchette and I think he can be helpful? He doesn't have an easy job. Maybe the gas companies would rather deal with individual farmers...but reality says the government is going to be involved...so deal with it! It's the cost of doing business?
Finally the municipality is involved...and they should be? It's their roads, they take the flack, and they have to get re-elected!
At the end of the day the idea is to get those wells drilled, so everybody is happy? Would you rather continue with more angry people, a hostile municipality, a beat up EUB...and no developement?
This pilot project is a good thing! Just my opinion.

[cowman]

Linda: On a personal level, I don't think of it as black and white, as such? For me...the evidence is in...CBM as practised here today...is not going to harm my water! Now I could go off on every little whim and say oh but what if...but from what I've learned...its good enough for me!
How do any of us make a decision about anything? When do we decide we have enough information to pull the trigger?
You might think I am just a greedy old man who sees nothing but a dollar sign...but for what? I've given all my land away(except one quarter)...and yes...I've given my mineral rights away!...Now mind you, I still run the show...or like to think I do...but the acorn didn't fall too far from the oak! Well actually maybe worse than the oak...as the boy is really un-environmental! I have to give him little "green" lectures every now and then and tell him about the need of a civilized human to feel empathy for his more unfortunate brethern!
Sometimes it seems raising children is a lifelong duty! LOL

[cowman]

Cowman its just the cost of doing business... is not what I was referring to .. The EUB stated at the last meeting that any company that did not get in line with the project's recommendations the Board well come down hard on them. I do not like being forced to do joint partnerships with companies that are not responsible and have no community concerns.. Our company trys to build sound and safe facilities but some do not,therefore I would rather build my own pipelines and not be held responsible for the others wrong doings. I personally did not like the way this project was even advertised as " a EUB controlled process" I believe the stakeholders should be the ones that control the process of making change and let the regulator observe the concerns brought to the table

[cakadu]

The black and white I'm referring to cowman, is if we're against this explosive drilling activity then we want to shut the economy and all drilling down, which in my case, is not the case at all.

I'm not wet behind the ears and I didn't fall off the hay rack yesterday, I know that it is going to happen no matter what. What I, and many others, would like to see is some sort of sustainable plan.

I'm glad that you feel safe - today - with what you have seen in terms of all the drilling activity in and around your place. The same does not apply for me and I suspect many others, which doesn't make us wrong. I like to think of it as being catious and looking to the future instead of only for today.