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

Workshop Agenda

The Dominant Legal Rights of Mineral Owners in New York
Legal Relationships of the Various Entities in Gas Production Process
New York State Gas Well Permitting Process
Overview of Basic Gas Lease Terms
Protections against Environmental Damages from Gas Drilling
under Federal and State Environmental Laws
Impacts of Leasing on Mortgages
Enforcing a Lease
Terminating a Lease
Alternatives to Leasing—the Advantages of Compulsory Integration

Recommended Reading

Oil and Gas at Your Door? A Landowner's Guide
to Oil and Gas Development, 2nd Edition, 2005
by Lisa Sumi, Oil and Gas Accountability Project

Minerals, Surface Rights and Royalty Payments, Nov. 2009
by Judon Fambrough. Senior Lecturer and Attorney at Law,
Texas A&M University, Describing Texas law

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

Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language, 2005
by Martin S. Raymond, PennWell Corp.

Internal Revenue Service Oil and Gas Handbook

Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boon or Bust? Nov. 2011
by Elisabeth N. Radow, New York State Bar Journal

An Ohio Landowner’s Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing: Addressing
Environmental and Health Issues in Natural Gas Leases , Rev. June 2011
by Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School

Drilling Down: Protecting Western Communities from the Health
and Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Production, 2007
by Amy Mall, Natural Resource Defense Council

The Oil and Gas Industry’s Exclusions and Exemptions
to Major Environmental Statutes, 2007
by Renee Lewis Kosnik, Oil and Gas Accountability Project

Drilling Doublespeak: Gas Drillers Disclose Risks to Shareholders
– But Not to Landowners, December 2011
by Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group

Drilling around the Law, 2010
by Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group

Learning Too Late of the Perils in Gas Well Leases, Dec. 1, 2011
by Ian Urbina and Jo Craven McGinty, The New York Times

Gas Leasing in Western Maryland Spurs Calls for Reform
Landowners, Realtors Seek More Disclosure, Protections, Dec. 31, 2011
by Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun

Oil Giant's Shell Game Nets Elderly Farmers, Dec. 28, 2011
(about Chesapeake's leasing practices in Michigan)
By Joshua Schneyer and Brian Grow, Reuters/MSNBC

Finger Lakes Region Gas Lease Mapping Report, July 2011
by Citizens Campaign for the Environment

IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Nothing in these workshops constitutes legal advice or an offer of legal advice. 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. To obtain legal advice, consult an attorney.