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Regular Council Meeting Minutes <br />5-18-09 <br />Page 21 <br />Mayor Rinker asked, covering what? <br />Mr. Triner said for two people in Hanover Woods. Two of the properties, this was the <br />language in two of the properties of the leases. <br />Mayor Rinker asked, so you are saying two people in Hanover Woods signed on? <br />Mr. Triner replied, no. This is just a copy of the lease that they were asking them to sign. <br />Mrs. Triner added, they didn't sign it. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, but it indicated that they were accumulating 160 <br />acres. <br />Mr. Triner said, yes. Which again, he knows at a couple of the meetings ago, some <br />people, an older couple, he thinks on Kenwood, they had been approached and they were <br />questioning the 160 acres. This document kind of says why it's 160 acres. <br />Mr. Triner said, again, he thinks it is important to attend these meetings and it's also <br />important to realize that it's probably something beyond this current activity that we are seeing <br />her. Again, if they are going to pool 20 acres, they could get a neighborhood, now you are <br />talking about drilling down 2 miles with real high gas wells. This is just something for Council <br />to be aware of. <br />Mrs. Mills asked if she could talk about Appalachia. She does not know if you have ever <br />been in that area, but they have had wells there since the late `50's which some of them have <br />exhausted themselves. What they're doing there is they go up in the mountains, they take all the <br />timber, then they take the coal, then they take the gas. So you know what's left. Those <br />mountain people, they don't really care. All they can think about is they are getting money for <br />timber, gas and the coal. The coal is stripped out of the mountains, so there's really, it's, if you <br />would go there, especially in the Cumberland Gap area, you would very disenchanted to see <br />what they have done to the land. As far as drilling deep, those mountains are high mountains. <br />That's why they have to drill so deep. That's how it is. <br />Council President Buckholtz thanked Mr. Triner again, as always. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked if there was anything else. <br />Mr. Metzung asked if you can sell them the rights to gas for the 20 acres of clinton and <br />then sell it again for the shale. <br />Mr. Triner replied, that is a good point, because they are getting people to sign these <br />clinton sands leases. What if they come back and find the Marcellus Shale. Who says they are <br />going to have to change anything? It doesn't say in the lease that they drill another well.