I saw it, yes, Jim. I perceived it as very much a "dog & pony show" for the gas drilling industry.

I mostly agree with someone else who summed it up on another list thusly:

" First 15 minutes taken up with a geology lesson. The last half sounded like a couple of shills for the gas industry. No problems associated with drilling, no natural gas in well-water, no case ever proven, blah, blah, blah. Nothing to see here. Move along. "

I was disappointed that, on a public broadcasting TV program called "The Law Works", there was virtually no discussion of current gas drilling law and looming likely changes in those laws.

After the geology lesson, the primary "legal message" was that if someone wants to lease the gas under your property, or wants to drill a gas well on your property- even if the gas interests are owned by someone else- that you should hire a lawyer. And with Ringer, who is a lawyer, interviewing two other lawyers, I suppose we should not be surprised to hear the chant to "hire a lawyer, hire a lawyer". While it may be good advice, a TV program called "The Law Works" could have done a better job of discussing the legal permutations of it all that make it advisable for land and mineral owners to have legal representation.

Frank

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From: Jim Sconyers

Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:53 AM

Subject: Re: [EC] FW: [wvec-board] Marcellus Shale- on WV PublicBroadcasting tonight (Thursday)

Did anybody see this and can report on it?

Jim Sconyers
jim_scon@yahoo.com
304.698.9628

Remember: Mother Nature bats last.

From: "Grubb, Karen" <Karen.Grubb@fairmontstate.edu>
To: "ec@osenergy.org" <ec@osenergy.org>
Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 6:12:47 PM
Subject: [EC] FW: [wvec-board] Marcellus Shale- on WV Public Broadcasting tonight (Thursday)

From: wvec-board@yahoogroups.com [mailto:wvec-board@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Frank Young
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 5:47 PM
To: WVHCBOARD@yahoogroups.com; wvec-board@yahoogroups.com; Chuck Wyrostok
Subject: [wvec-board] Marcellus Shale- on WV Public Broadcasting tonight (Thursday)

Tonight on The Law Works (8:30 p.m. on WV PBS TV) host Dan Ringer takes on the legal topics around Marcellus Shale Gas drilling in West Virginia. Special guests are attorneys Kenneth Tawney and Andrew Graham.

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