Meetings and Events
WV SORO Update 9/22
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Educational Meeting on Surface Owners' Rights and Oil & Gas Leasing
6:30PM ~ Philip Barbour
High School near Phillipi
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October 24-26, 2008
WV Highlands Conservancy's Fall Review
AFC Retreat and Conference Center near Marlinton, WV
Saturday evening program will be a presentation & discussion about the rush to drill the Marcellus Shale formation.
Reservations required
Click here for more information or contact
Cindy Rank (304-924-5802, clrank@hughes.net) or
Beth Little (304-653-4277, blittle@citynet.net)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Informational Meeting on
Surface Owners’ Rights
Hosted by the Northern Wayne County Community Association
7:00 PM ~ Old Buffalo
High School Cafeteria
Wayne County, WV
Click here for more information or contact
BJ Smith, N. Wayne Co. Community Assoc., (304) 453-2033
or Julie or Norm at wvsoro.org or (304) 346-5891
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Welcome to the West Virginia
Surface Owners' Rights Organization
Did you know that West Virginia is second only to Texas in the number of active oil and gas wells in the country? Did you know that new drilling permits have more than tripled in the past several years? Did you know that surface owners have very few rights unless they also own the minerals? If you live in one of the state’s oil & gas counties you’ve probably seen or heard of the polluted streams, needless destruction of timber, lost home sites, mindless road building and ruined pastures caused by drillers.
WV SORO is a growing grassroots membership organization focused on educating landowners about their rights and fighting to expand and strengthen drilling laws and regulations to protect landowners from abuses. The group was formed in 2007 and we can now count among our ranks members from 51 of West Virginia’s counties and 24 other states who are still caring for their home places.
We are looking for like-minded people, devoted to protecting and enhancing surface owners’ rights, to join us by becoming members of WV SORO.
With your input and support we want to pass a “Surface Owners’ Bill of Rights” to level the playing field with the oil & gas companies and give landowners more say in the location of wells and access roads and other matters related to oil & gas exploration on their property.
You can help us level that playing field by joining WV SORO.
Your membership will provide us with the funds to elevate our common issues in the press and take them to the legislature.
Join Us!
Click here to print a membership form or e-mail info@wvsoro.org to have a membership packet mailed to you.
• So you can help support the work.
• So we can learn about you.
• So that we can contact you in the future to help us get you more rights.
More about us and joining
Educate Your Legislators
(About the problems you have enforcing your rights as a surface owner, and the provisions in the West Virginia Surface Owners' Bill of Rights that will address these issues)
Download and sign our petition
to Governor Joe Manchin and members of the WV Legislature urging them to support a 'Surface Owners' Bill of Rights.' Encourage others to sign the petition. Return completed petitions to WV SORO and we’ll get them to legislators and the governor.
Current Events
Links to News Stories Relevant to SORO
Not Wyoming Yet: The Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling “Play”
New Drilling Efforts Raise Questions
Oil & gas drillers pushing landowners for fast deals (WV Public Radio covers Elkins leasing meeting)
Press Release: Landowners’ group appeals state agency ruling on spacing for gas wells
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| Well site during active drilling to the Marcelllus Shale formation in Upshur County, West Virginia, in 2008. (An additional water storage pit is not in the photo.) Copyright WVSORO, June 2008. Permission to use may be obtained from WVSORO |
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