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On Saturday, November 7, 2009, beginning at 9:00 A.M. at the Fort Worth Convention Center, all Southwest Fort Worth Alliance residents can take part in a FREE Mineral Rights Leasing Forum called, “Know Your Rights”. Invitations to attend this forum are going out to multiple organizations and SFWA’s mineral owners will all receive an invitation soon, whether they have signed a lease or not.
The purpose of the forum is to provide everyone, including SFWA’s mineral owners, access to information on all aspects of mineral rights leasing and some of the secondary issues that arise from it. For more information regarding the NTLLG’s November Forum please visit their website at http://www.ntxleaselitigation.com
Please let your neighbors, family, and friends know that if they receive the letter, it is legitimate; we’ll also post a copy of the letter here on the alliance website. Please mark your calendars and save the date.
The forum is free, but if available parking fills up, you may need to pay for parking, so you and your neighbors and friends may want to carpool. Also, there is no childcare provided, so keep that in mind if you have little ones.
It’s important that this information reaches everyone, so that we can all be informed on what’s happened to date, and of our rights now that the landmen and brokers are knocking on doors again. Please help spread the word. We'll See you there.
News Archive
Pipeline companies' right to condemn
land may be questioned
Click
here for the Star Telegram's article in the Sunday, June 22nd
Fort Worth edition.
Twenty-Two Neighborhood Associations
Are Now Working Through The Southwest Fort Worth Alliance!
Click
here for the Star Telegram's article in the Tuesday, June 10th
Fort Worth edition, or click on Southwest Fort Worth Alliance
to read the announcement!
July 27th
The South Hills Gas Group has joined forces with
the Southwest Fort Worth Alliance. Please welcome our new allies,
and take a fresh look at our updated interactive maps to see just
how strong we are when we stand together!
June 23rd
Additional neighborhoods and holdouts to our
south have expressed a strong desire to join our Alliance. We will
number 26 neighborhoods strong!
June 18th
The second official meeting of the Southwest
Fort Worth Alliance was held on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 with representatives
from the 22 member Neighborhood Associations in attendance. Further
key discussions regarding the Gas Lease Committee’s work were
held. The SFWA website presence is nearly completed, and Alliance-wide
updates will be posted there regularly and as rapidly as Alliance
leadership determines it complete, accurate and ready for release.
Another SFWA meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 25th.BEWARE! The Landmen are still combing the neighborhoods
trying to pick-off residents and get them to sign before the Alliance
has concluded its negotiations with the Gas Companies. PLEASE REMEMBER:
the Southwest Fort Worth Alliance, or your own Neighborhood Association
officers, will let you know when an acceptable lease has been negotiated.
Together we are strong, so PLEASE WAIT TO SIGN!
June 11th
The first official meeting of the Southwest Fort
Worth Alliance was held on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 with representatives
from the 22 member Neighborhood Associations in attendance. A Gas
Lease Committee meeting was held the following morning, and further
communication from the Alliance addressed directly to Chesapeake
and XTO CEO's and Presidents will follow very soon. Since the SFWA
intends to deal directly with the gas companies, we strongly recommend
that any and all communications received from Landmen representing
those companies be set aside in the pile of other communications
you have received from them. In short, just ignore the solicitations
from the Landmen! The SFW Alliance is going to deal directly with
the Gas Companies!The Southwest Fort Worth Alliance will let you
know, both through this website and through the 22 member neighborhoods
the neighborhood leadership, when acceptable lease terms have been
offered and deemed acceptable. Please IGNORE all other solicitations
from the Landmen, or any other attempts to persuade you to go ahead
and sign their very unfair lease.WE, the SOUTHWEST FORT WORTH
ALLIANCE, are working for YOU!!! Just tell them "I'M WAITING TO SIGN!"
May 27th
The recent meeting of the GWGC was held on Tuesday,
May 27, 2008 at the McKinney Memorial Bible Church. This meeting
led to the formation of a MUCH larger negotiation group: the Southwest
Fort Worth Alliance.The Power Point slide show presentation given
at that meeting is still available on this website under DOCUMENTS
in the left-side menu. Please feel free to click on that link to
view or download a copy of that presentation in PDF format.If you do not yet have an "I'm Waiting To Sign!"
sign for your yard, please contact your Neighborhood Association
officers, or Tolli Thomas, President of Wedgwood Square NA and Co-Chair
of the SFW Alliance, and someone will see that you receive one.Volunteers are needed to help keep everyone informed,
to get signs and flyers distributed, and to prepare for upcoming
coalition efforts and meetings. Contact your Neighborhood Association
to get involved!
July 2nd
Chesapeake
may walk away from Fort Worth site
NOTE: An article published in the July 2, 2008
PRINT edition of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, also authored by
Jim Fuquay, was titled “Chesapeake seeks to win neighborhoods’
support”, and contained somewhat different language that the “Chesapeake
may walk away…” title for the article posted on the Barnett
Shale Blog contained (see link above). The original article and
text are available from the PRINT EDITION of the July 2nd Star Telegram,
or the “e-Edition” (follow
this link to the “e-Edition")
The reason for this variance between the printed
article and the Star Telegram online
version is not known at to us at this time, but the original
article as shown in the printed version of the Star Telegram does
vary both in terms of article title and article content, and the
article entitled “Chesapeake seeks to win neighborhoods’ support”
sounds far more encouraging than “Chesapeake may walk away from
Fort Worth site”.
If you have a print copy of Section “C”
of the July 2nd edition of the Fort Worth Star Telegram containing
Jim Fuquay’s original version of the article, please retain it
for future reference.
July 2nd Driller
sues Flower Mound over drilling ordinance
July 2nd White
Chapel Corridor agrees to $22,500 deal
July 1st Chesapeake
asks FW to postpone Eighth Ave. drill site hearing
June 20th Offers
going up in Southwest Fort Worth area
June 10th Resident
complains of pressure from energy company
June 6th Chesapeake
seeks council waiver for 8th Ave site
June 6th Fort
Worth neighbors oppose natural gas pipeline under yards
June 3rd Near-record
territory for Arlington group
May 29th Parks
Area group (S. Arlington) has $26,500 lease deal
May 6th Burleson
groups, Chesapeake reach record $27,200/acre deal
March 26th No
30-30 deal? FW Eastsiders take $25k, 26.5% |
