Re: Is this peace and quiet?
Drew, Bro Haut's question about "BIG OIL" was because he knew that the drilling company footed the bill for rehabbing my fishpond. They dropped a ton on it because water is so precious here and they need it to fracture the shale and stimulate the production of the natural gas.
My pond drains about 250 acres of nearly vertical, badly eroded land and it collects water very fast in only moderate rains. Rather than import water from wells in the area at $.15 per bbl (and deplete the aquafers in the area), they rehabbed my pond to hold about 100,000bbl. I agreed to sell them that water at $.10 per bbl. It takes about 2" of rain to fill the pond. One gullywasher thunderstorm, then, is worth somewhere around $10,000, and saves the gas well guys about $5,000. That is why they spent about $30,000 desilting and enlarging the pond.
They are not going to drill on The Hideout, but they have leased 5 acres for their water storage facility (called a "Frac Pit") and will buy water from us as long as they are operating in this area. The mineral rights lease has expired.
Does that help relieve the confusion?
