BIG OIL Showed them the Money

If you didn't catch it, a recent Times Leader article included a link to two lists of folks who signed natural gas drilling leases on property in Luzerne County. Here's a link to the article, and also to the actual lists of  leases - many signed in 2010 - given to EnCana/Whitmar and Chesapeake. The Times Leader archives their articles fairly quickly, so I'd recommend printing and/or saving the two .PDF files ASAP.

I lived 25+ years in the Wyoming Valley, and even though I've been away for about the same number of years, I still recognize many of the names on the lists. Here are but a few from the 27 pages:

Ertley (multiple)

Hasay (multiple)

Bonham (multiple)

Conyngham (multiple)

Ide (multiple x multiple)

Mattern

Atherton (multiple)

Voyton (multiple)

Kanjorski

Manzoni (multiple)

Niezgoda

Killian

Dragon (multiple)

Williams (multiple - no relation)

Slocum (multiple)

Heffernan

Wengen (former classmate)

Casterline (multiple)

Stroud (multiple)

Rittenhouse

Here are a few more for your reading pleasure:

Living Word Baptist Church (and the word is....greed!)

Polish National Catholic Church

Irem Temple Ancient Arabic Ord (cut off)

Kunkle Kennel, LLC

Harry S. Smith Fire Co.

Bethel Hill Club

Bonham Log & Lumber, Inc.

North Mountain Club

Crickets Glen Camp

New Hunlock Investment, LLC

Ruckno Associates Inc.

Rattle Snake Run Gun Club (?)

Back Mountain Recreation Inc.

Village at Greenbriar, Inc.

Rattesnake Gultch Hunting Clu (cut off)

Mayflower Rod & Gun Club

Piercing Arrow Bowhunters Inc.

Peaceful (not for much longer) Pioneers Inc.

Sweet Valley Volunteer Fire Co.

Tammac Holdings Corporation

Farleys Sweet Valley (not for much longer) Golf Cour (cut off)

Hidden Lake Campsitis Inc (?)

Soap Stone Hunting Club, Inc.

Remember these names and businesses well when EnCana's and/or Chesapeake's first major "Ooops!" occurs in Luzerne County.

Better yet, stop doing business with them NOW!