We had this Facebook conversation, which I would like to share with you:

DORY HIPPAUF (DH)
The attached spreadsheet is my connect the dots raw data for marcellus shale players. Marcellus Gas Play Players.xls

ANDY CHYBA (AC)
Very impressive
2 questions:
1. How long has this taken to piece together
2. What has been the most profitable use you have found for this info?

DH
1. I started working on it about 2 1/2 years ago, it will continue until it’s no longer needed
2. Most profitable? My blog posts and presentations are based on the data, and I share it with others.
Opens people’s eyes to how much money is being passed around and how incestual the relationships are between corporations, politicians and other organizations.
When organizing a protest – it’s helpful tool to know who’s who so the protest is targeted at the right person/corporation. No sense in staging a protest outside of Exxon-Mobil when you have the issue with Royal Dutch Shell – right?
The frackers know who we are, what organizations we belong to etc. So I thought turn about is fair play.

AC
Fantastic – thanks for that. Very helpful.
Is there a big fractivist community where you are? (Which where exactly?)
And what about public awareness and perception over there. We are still struggling to wake people up over here.

DH
I live in Pennsylvania, I am chair of the research committee for Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition (FB page – https://www.facebook.com/GDACoalition)
Website: http://www.gdacoalition.org/
Our Videos: http://www.gdacoalition.org/GDAC_VIDEO.html
Natural gas is “cooked” in our area – meaning there is not enough gas to make it worthwhile to drill. However, we are central for the mid-stream infrastructure of compressor stations, dehydration plants, and main gas transmission lines – all of which is as hazardous (if not more) than a drill pad.
Public perception here is also a problem. Seems no one will get off their duff until there’s a natural gas blowout in their backyard.
We keep trying by being as active as we can in the community. We reach out to people who may have a problem with the gas industry, try to mobilize neighborhoods where infrastructure may be built, and we do presentations, bring in speakers and anything else we can think of to raise awareness and get people involved.

AC
I too am involved with a wide range of anti-fracking groups. With a Geography/Geology background I hope to help with understanding the technicalities of fracking and also the vagaries of the UK planning system. Our story is diarised in reverse chronological order via my local Green Party blog: https://bridgendgreens.wordpress.com/?s=frack
It has been great to make this contact with you. It serves to underline the the near global nature of this menace

DH
Great to meet you too !

Link to my blog posts
http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/author/dhippauf/

Dory Hippauf | No Fracking Way
http://www.facebook.com

(Full Excel spreadsheet attached – see end of posting).

It is a list of the contact details of what appears to be just about all of the UK based PEDL holders –

frackers and potential frackers – and a few other potential players.I am sure you will all be able to

recognise a few names on this list.
FYI re Coastal Oil and Gas/UK Methane, the listed name, Oliver Taylor, is their in-house geologist.

Gerwyn Williams is the aging managing director looking for the quick speculative gain to fund his retirement.

I recommend that you register for a free account with https://www.duedil.com/ and check out the

companies you are interested in.
You will probably be surprised/shocked at what little tin-pot companies most of these are.

If you struggle with this, let me know which company and I’ll get you a summary.

What to do with this contact information? Suggestions welcome – use your imaginations!

That it has taken this long for American mainstream news channels to catch up with the story is a bit of a shock – but better late than never! Thanks for the heads up Denis.

He writes:

Hey folks!

Mainstream news provider NBC News Today Show -Rossen Reports – this morning showed this explosive story on water set ablaze (like in Gasland).

This is HUGE! A mainstream news organisation running this story in the USA with an audience in the millions is a big break for the movement.

Go to iTunes until Sunday night and download the 11 January episode of NBC TODAY show (video) to save forever to your iPhone or iPad. Dont have one? No problem, go to this website to see the story. http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/01/11/16462830-rossen-reports-family-discovers-their-tap-water-is-flammable?lite

Very important that such a mainstream group has this story.

Please spread this.

Denis Campbell

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Martyn

Hi Martyn,

Thank you for the prompt reply and encouraging words. If we leave this with you for a week or so to allow you to raise it with the appropriate officers, perhaps we could arrange to meet in a week or so’s time to discuss how best to proceed.

Thanks again,

Andy, Gareth & Delyth
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Hi Andy
Vanessa suggested I contact as I am not happy about the EU survey. [see post below]

After I have ticked the box to say I don’t want CSG at all – it is not the way to go, fossil fuel should be left in the ground, we need to reduce our energy waste and pursue renewables – I am then forced to continue ticking boxes about, if it could be made safe … Blaa blaa blaa. I think its a con. I suspect the stats emerging from it will be used to say – if it’s monitored etc it’ll be ok.

Let me know what you think.

Regards, Lynne

Hi Lynne,

I do not think you have anything to worry about. After the ‘overall perception’ section it goes onto ‘main potential opportunities’. These, as far as I am concerned, are mostly ‘No Benefit’ responses, although a couple could be conceded as ‘minor benefits’ or ‘don’t knows’.

It then covers ‘potential challenges’, which are just about all ‘Major Challenges’ – although again a few could be marked as just ‘significant challenges’.

Then it has ‘addressing the challenges’, which are all ‘Very Important’

It then gives the opportunity to say whether your opposition would be diminished if all these things were dealt with – to which our answer is an emphatic ‘NO’ (for the reasons you state)
There is then a section on possible actions going forward; to which I responded ‘NO’ to except for the one ‘Develop a comprehensive and specific EU piece of legislation for unconventional fossil fuels (e.g. shale gas)’ to which I said ‘Yes’, but followed up in the Further Suggestions box with: Impose a EU ban on all unconventional fossil fuel extraction and divert all research and investment into sustainable renewable projects that we will have to rely on sooner or later – with sooner being the sane option.’

Then there is a section on ”Information needed’ – all ‘Very Important’ except the last on potential employment and tax revenues; which I marked ‘Not important at all’ which is the case if we are not going to consider doing this stuff.

Finally is the ‘red herring’ question about can unconventional fossil fuels contribute a low carbon economy – an emphatic ‘NO’ again!

It ends with ‘Are you satisfied with this survey?’ Personally, Yes I am. So long as many people like you take the trouble to go through it all and put the ‘right’ answers!

I hope this helps

Andy

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