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Category: Marcellus ShaleBy Jim Willis on Aug 7, 2008 in Environment, Marcellus Shale, This Site | 0 Comments
I’ve just posted a new resource page on the blog titled Natural Gas Leases. It lists local landowner groups who either have formed, or are in the process of forming, for the purpose of negotiating land leases with energy companies who want to drill for natural gas around Greater Binghamton. The resource page also lists [...]
By Jim Willis on Jul 28, 2008 in Energy, Environment, Government & Politics, Marcellus Shale | 0 Comments
Another chapter in Grimm’s (Environmentally Amended) Fairy Tales…
Once upon a time big bad energy companies did something really really bad. They wanted to drill for natural gas where (gasp) natural gas actually existed! Can you imagine raping the ground for something natural? Anyway, these big bad energy companies were of course enabled by and codependent [...]
By Jim Willis on Jul 27, 2008 in Assy Donna Lupardo, Energy, Environment, Government & Politics, Marcellus Shale, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
A lot has happened since I’ve first written about drilling for natural gas around the Greater Binghamton region. For one thing, groups of land owners have banded together and signed contracts worth millions. Yes, millions. Some local farmers who have struggled for years working the farm, paying high taxes and trying to hold on to [...]
By Jim Willis on May 16, 2008 in Business, Environment, Marcellus Shale, Why Binghamton? | 1 Comment
In the early and mid-20th century, Broome County, NY was a boom town. Some 20,000 people worked for Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company. By the mid-20th century, another 20,000 worked at what had been a little startup founded in Endicott in 1888, originally known as the Tabulating Machine Company, later renamed IBM. Yes, IBM was started here! [...]