Monday - afternoon
I got a text from an individual last week from a gas company indicating they want to purchase a lease on 2 of my properties to engage in horizontal drilling under my land. There will be no surface operations, they claim yet state the potential otherwise elsewhere in their literature.
The gas company is the same company that owned the gas well on my property when I first bought it. It's also the company with that jerkoff senior manager who was treating me quite poorly - putting it mildly. We were having disputes over use of the land - my land not their lease - and use of "their driveway", so they claimed and I summarily dismissed and other things such as this dude telling me "You can't drive over our lease".
The hell you say. If that were actually true, I would be losing a significant portion of my land due to no access, for their lease blocks entrance to the rear of the property, so to speak. I also dismissed that and the tones became hostile as I was not about to let some dude at a company with lots of money and interests dictate to me what I can and cannot do on my own land.
It's not true and I've had quite a few conversations with people about this situation over the last 3 years. Mineral rights owners can sell their interest independently of the land owner if the 2 are not of the same ownership, but that doesn't give the gas company right and license to tell the landowner what he can and cannot do. In all the condescending emails and conversations I had with that individual, I never once said I was trying to restrict their access to their lease at all. The same didn't hold true coming from them, they had had full use of that land for 60 years and couldn't stand the idea of someone coming in and setting up came alongside them.
Once you start getting disrespectful with me and I haven't been that way with you, you are barking down the wrong trail. I have a long memory for things such as this and I almost puked when the man texting me said he was with that particular gas company. I told him directly that I would not voluntarily be doing business with them. The matter continued until today, the man kept pushing it so I started doing some digging for I had forgotten the man's name.
I found it and all the memories came flooding in, I wrote about that stuff extensively on this journal, I will revisit if this situation deteriorates. I told the man texting me the name of the person - who is a senior manager in the company - and that I would not be doing business with them. I'm sure this isn't the end of it, they want the use of the underground and they have to have permission granted them from the landowner, even if their intended usage is not on the surface area of the proposed project at all. I've done my homework.
I texted him the name of that dude and I have heard nothing back. Not surprising since the man I'm referring to has been working there forever and has a lot of weight and pull in that company. I won't budge. They are only offering me a little over $200 for rights to both properties, that doesn't even phase me at all. I can spend that much in a single outing at a finer restaurant in town or nearby.
As for today's day off, my alarm went off at 6:30 am, I don't know why for I didn't set it last night. I dunno if I accidently pushed something or not. I laid in bed a couple of hours - awake - after that, I wanted to sleep in. I eventually got up, got coffee and then went over to the property and finished ALL of the mower over there. Hours worth of work, I now need to go pull grass around the water, sewer and power lines on the ground and then spray it with grass killer.
I am not doing that today.
