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[Sandra Repp <sjr37 AT cornell.edu>]

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Gas Drilling & Compulsory Integration: What Are Your
Rights?
November 14, 7:00-9:00
Dryden Fire Hall, 26 North Street, Dryden, NY 13053

Energy companies may be able to remove natural gas from your property
even if you haven't signed a drilling lease due to the Compulsory 
Integration provisions of the New York Oil, Gas and Solution Mining
Law.  

The public is invited to learn more about this topic and to ask 
questions at a free, educational forum on Monday, November 14 at the
Dryden Fire Hall, 26 North Street in Dryden. Doors will open at 6:30
and presentations begin at 7:00 p.m. Presentations will be followed by
question-and-answer period. 

Topics to be covered include: an explanation of Compulsory Integration
(CI) and its legislative history; an overview of compulsory integration
hearings and your rights; impacts of CI on your land rights and how CI
could affect your ability to obtain mortgages and loans. 

Presenters include: NY State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (125th
District); Kenneth Holden, Esq. of Hancock Estabrook in Syracuse,
an 
attorney with extensive experience in natural gas leasing who has 
represented clients at compulsory integration hearings; Greg May,
vice-president for Residential Mortgage Lending at Tompkins Trust 
Company; Carol Chock, TC Legislator and member of the TC Council
of 
Governments Gas Drilling Taskforce’s Committee on Land 
Values/Assessment; and Nancy Larraine Hoffmann, farmer,
spokesperson 
for Land Stewards of NY and former NY State Senator. Also invited: 
NYS Senator James Seward. 

This forum is sponsored by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of 
Tompkins County and Fleased. For more information, contact 
Sharon Anderson, Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County at 
607-272-2292 or Ellen Harrison at 607-539-7133.