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    do. Our current exploratorydrilling program still onlyincludes the two locationswhere we currently haveactivity, a prepared releasesent by Encana states.

    Only after we fullyassessthe results of those wells which wont happen untillate this year at the earliest

    willwe determinethe pathforward. These applicationsassumesuccess,whichis cer-tainly not guaranteed in anexploratory playlike this.

    For the new wells, Encanais asking for useof the prop-erties for 12 months to drillthewells, place water storage

    tanks and personnel trailers,then permanent use for thenatural gas wellheads.

    The Lake Township gasprocessing facility will treatand compress the gas so itcan be put into the Transco

    P i pe li n e w h i ch ru n sthrough the 4-P property andsent to market.

    Encanais looking to builda radio tower nearbyto allowcommunication between the

    companysfacility andTrans-cos. The processing facilitywill include a contractor fordehydrating the natural gasbyremovingwatervaporanda compressor building thatwill house the compressorengines to minimize noiseandprotectthe equipment.

    The Luzerne County zon-ing hearing board granted

    Encana conditional use tobuild a similar facility inFairmount Township neartheBuda site,on land ownedby Thomas and CarolineRaskiewicz at Mossville andHartman roads.

    Marcellus Shale Northeastern Pennsylvanias New Frontier

    Encana: Wants to use properties for 12 months

    The state Office of OpenRecords dismissed The Citi-

    zens Voices appeal for elec-tronicrecords.

    In a final determinationissued by theoffice, thestatesaid because the newspaperaccepted and paid for paperrecords of natural gas leasesfrom the Wyoming CountyRecorder of Deeds,the news-papers appeal for electroniccopieswas moot.

    As the Requester (sic) hasalready received the record

    requested for a fee in compli-ance with the (Right-to-KnowLaw), appeals officer Lucin-da Glinn wrote, there is nomatter for theOOR toadjudi-cate, and the appeal is dis-missed.

    On June 15, a reporter forThe Citizens Voicerequestedanelectronic copy of an item-ized list of oil and gas leasesfrom the Recorder of DeedsOffice.

    Under the law, an agencymustprovide its openrecordsin the format it maintainsthem in. Because the Record-er of Deeds office maintainsits records electronically, it islegally obligated to providethem electronically.

    Th e o f f i ce de n ie d th enewspapers request for elec-tronic records but offeredpaper recordsat a discountedprice.

    The newspaper purchased

    the paper records to updateits database of natural gas

    leases in a timely mannerandappealed the decision.

    A trio of reporters spentmore than 25 hours inputtingthe more than 4,000 natural

    gas leasesinto a spreadsheet.T h e C i t i z e ns Vo i c e

    appealed the Recorder ofDeeds decision because thenewspaper plans to updateitsdatabase again.

    Patrick Sweet

    State dismisses Voices records appeal

    You can search 6,550 naturalgas leases in Luzerne, Lacka-wanna and Wyoming countiesat citizensvoice.com/drilling.

    These applicationsassume success,

    which is certainlynot guaranteed in

    an exploratory playlike this.

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