Oil Spill

[Kay/NC]

What we " think is fair" and what is supposed to happen legally can be very similar, or may be highly disparate.  Other than your loat income from the land damage, you have no " standing" in forcing any sort of remedy.  

The owner is the one with a perpetual problem...your family's history of leasing the land is pretty much meaningless in real terms of power of what you can demand, or even what requests will be honored by the pipeline's owner.  

What you may end up with is a smaller piece of usable property going forward.    The lease rate should be adjusted accordingly.  

[k-289]

I would expect this will be a elongated slow process as are most " after the fact" situations ---as have seen in the news lately about the Nebraska cities receiving compensation for Atrarzine herbicide contamination of municipal water well fields--- decades in the resulting litigation although the city of Lincoln Nebraska is to be compensated  @$809,000.00 alone--of course the corperate company was "not" held liable ---

[k-289]

Shaggy - was it better or worse than expected --- the guys in Nebraska want to know what to expect when the tar sands pipe starts leaking ---

[Shaggy98]

I don't know yet, I left for the Ag Connect Expo this morning and haven't had a chance to look.  It will have to wait until Friday.

[ipjrobson]

That is a really good question. 

I don't think you are wrong in asking for it to be replaced. I just dont' know if they would go for that. 

That really sucks that it happened. Are there any kind of best practices in this situation? 

[k-289]

Shaggy  is it steady as it blows on the spill ? 

[Bugeye]

Yeah , come on Raggy! You've had plenty of time to get your butt out there and have a look at this deal. You came on here looking for answers, we gave you all the right ones and you can't even crawl down off of barstool mountain long enogh to have a look. Time to shape up here man! We expect answers by noon or we're going to take matter into our own hands. How big a feller are you anyhow?

[ECIN]

LMAO bugeye !   It don't make any difference when he do's finally get out there ! He won't know what he's looking at OR for , lol

He should call Dennis 1 - he's a Pro pumper ! LOL

[Shaggy98]

Ok boys I'm gonna open up a 55 gallon drum of you know what all over your A__. 

The leak itself has been repaired, but when I returned home we had 4" snow cover.  Hard to check things out, and I  haven't found my X-Ray goggles since we performed that last panty raid my Sr. year at college and that was in the early 90's.

Take a chill pill buy another round for your buddies and I'll keep you informed when the top dries down a bit, probably just a couple of days but I wish it were a couple of weeks.

[Bugeye]

Come on Shaggy, you gettin' this thing straightened out? Heard on the news this morning there an oil spill running into the Gulf of Mexico that can be traced clear back to Raggy Acres Farms in north central Kansas. They're starting to call you Captain Hayworth and your place is the Valdez Ranch. I know what's going on here, you got a copy of the critically acclaimed New York Times best selling pamplet from ECIN publications "How To Become a 4X4X44 Farmer in 2X2 country". This coupled with the new episodes of SpongBob Squarepants and are having trouble tearing yourself away from what's most important in life. You're gonna have to cowboy up here , man. I know watching SpongBob and Patrick irritate Mrs. Pufferfish is pretty entertaining but , dude, you can't be letting all that salt water run where it's not supposed to go. They say there are areas right now that the ocean water is so salty people can't drink it. You're giving the oil industry a black eye....and for what? So you can watch Mrs. Pufferfish puff up like an Australian Blow Toad then laugh while she lets off her pressure relief valve and flies all around like a balloon somebody let go. Do you realize the bruises that poor ...um....woman sustains everytime this happens? It's like she owed Mike Tyson some money and he came to collect. Then she stinks the place up when ever she does this. She's the reason Bikini Bottoms smells like fish. It's obvious you have been watching entirely way too much SpongBob. Time to get your butt out there and take care of business.