Workshops on Gas Leasing

We offer workshops on gas leasing issues for landowners, municipal officials and citizens. If you would like information about hosting or attending a workshop, please call 607-569-2114.

Limitations of Gas Leasing:
Why Landowners Cannot Fully Protect Themselves with Leases
Workshop Agenda

9:00 – Overview and Introductions
9:30– Legal Rights of Mineral Owners in New York
10:00 – Legal Rights of Other Entities in Gas Production Process
10:30 – New York State Gas Well Permitting Process
11:00 – Break
11:15 – Overview of Basic Gas Lease Terms
12:15 – Lunch
1:00 – Protecting against Environmental Damages
1:30 – Enforcing a Lease
2:00 – Terminating a Lease
2:30 – Alternatives to Leasing — Compulsory Integration
3:00 – Adjourn

Recommended Reading

Oil and Gas at Your Door? A Landowner's Guide
to Oil and Gas Development, 2nd Edition, 2005
by the Oil and Gas Accountability Project
http://www.earthworksaction.org/LOguidechapters.cfm

Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell, 5th Edition, 2009
by John S. Lowe

Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language
by Martin S. Raymond

Drilling Down: Protecting Western Communities from the Health
and Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Production, 2007
by Amy Mall, Natural Resource Defense Council
www.nrdc.org/land/use/down/fdown.pdf

The Oil and Gas Industry’s Exclusions and Exemptions
to Major Environmental Statutes, 2007
by Renee Lewis Kosnik, Oil and Gas Accountability Project
www.earthworksaction.org/pubs/PetroleumExemptions1c.pdf

Drilling around the Law, 2010
by Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/drillingaroundthelaw

 

IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Nothing in these workshops constitutes legal advice or an offer of legal advice. Unless you have signed an Engagement Letter with Rachel Treichler she has undertaken no responsibility for your legal problems or planning, nor does she owe any duty to you. All techniques and ideas discussed in the workshops are general in nature and are incomplete descriptions of the law and should not be relied upon by you. Consult your attorney.