The Joint Standing Committee on Energy is meeting today in the House Chamber down in Charleston.  On the agenda, “Study of unitization of interests in horizontal well drilling units.”  Also, presentations from WVONGA, WVROA, Joe Hatton who is an Agribusinessman, and a Study of Royalty Payments by Kevin Ellis from Antero Resources.  Doesn’t look like the opposition to forced pooling was invited today.

Oh, there’s also Miscellaneous Business on the agenda.

Time to start calling legislators again, it seems.

While we’re fans of development, we’re not fans of eminent domain being used to force leases onto West Virginia mineral and surface owners.  It’s just not right.