It's not tough to find property owners who've struck landmen from the ol' Christmas card list. But we haven't seen any litigation yet over alleged misrepresentations in the Barnett Shale neighborhood leasing game. (If this 
surfaces and we overlook it here at the S-T, we're sure somebody will tip us off.)
Might that change at some point? A couple of Dallas law firms have put up a web site, soliciting reports from people who feel they've been wronged. Called barnettshalelawsuit.com, it's a joint venture of the Rasansky Law Firm and Aldous Law Firm, both personal injury specialists.
"The discovery of the Barnett Shale natural gas field offers land owners the possibility of income based on the amount of natural gas on their property," BarnettShaleLawsuit.com says. "However, some companies may deceive land owners by having them sign oil and gas leases that are unfair, duping landowners with leases that cannot be read, offering royalty payments far below market rate, and/or defrauding landowners with numerous other types of misrepresentations."
Barnettshalelawsuit.com isn't hard to find. If you forget that, just Google "Barnett Shale lawsuits," and the site pops up No. 1. The No. 3 hit is this riff at pegasusnews.com from Barnett Shale drilling hawk Don Young:
"Every night before going to bed, I always say my prayers. For the past two years, I have repeatedly petitioned the Lord...Please, Lord, let somebody in the Barnett Shale sue somebody. Why has it taken so long?"
-- Scott Nishimura
(Photo: Jeff Rasansky, courtesy of Rasansky Law Firm)
Well, my husband and I were promised a bonus check for over $5,000.00 20 days ago. We called today (day 21)to find out what the delay was. They told us that after all of this time they found out that the developer of our neighborhood held the mineral rights. WOW!! what a waste of time. We took off an entire day from work to sign a lease that was as good as the piece of paper it was written on!!!
Posted by: DUPED!!! | April 25, 2008 at 03:41 PM
TERM-INATED.
Posted by: BH | March 28, 2008 at 05:53 PM
BSH the word of the day is "TERM" ok boys and girls
Posted by: | March 28, 2008 at 04:25 PM
3-28-2008 BSH still under breached term.
Posted by: BH | March 28, 2008 at 03:28 PM
Thats ok folks, she who laughs last
laughs the longest. Don't ever under
estimate a Taurus with a moon in Pices.,
or a woman scorned. Put the 2 together
and let the game begin.
Posted by: BH | March 28, 2008 at 03:27 PM
I am so glad Bev has a topic she can weigh in on! It must really be hard on her to read all these stories about everyone getting rich.
Posted by: | March 28, 2008 at 01:29 PM
3-27- 2008 BSH still under term
Posted by: | March 27, 2008 at 08:44 PM
Well these bottom dwellers should fit right in with the likes of mini-me Don Young quoting scripture. With Don's political leanings I did not realize he believed in God. I thought he was more of the Wicken type like TxSharon.
Posted by: Matt | March 27, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Thanks for the tip scott. I am in line
or maybe I am the first in Line.
Submitted my complaint on 4/7's one
minute ago. Remember that well "they"
were going to drill me back in July
of 2007?
Posted by: BH | March 27, 2008 at 11:49 AM